Constructing Mark Twain: New Directions in ScholarshipMichael J. Kiskis, Laura E. Skandera-Trombley University of Missouri Press, 2001 - 252 Seiten The thirteen essays in this collection combine to offer a complex and deeply nuanced picture of Samuel Clemens. With the purpose of straying from the usual notions of Clemens (most notably the Clemens/Twain split that has ruled Twain scholarship for over thirty years), the editors have assembled contributions from a wide range of Twain scholars. As a whole, the collection argues that it is time we approach Clemens not as a shadow behind the literary persona but as a complex and intricate creator of stories, a creator who is deeply embedded in the political events of his time and who used a mix of literary, social, and personal experience to fuel the movements of his pen. The essays illuminate Clemens's connections with people and events not usually given the spotlight and introduce us to Clemens as a man deeply embroiled in the process of making literary gold out of everyday experiences. From Clemens's wonderings on race and identity to his looking to family and domesticity as defining experiences, from musings on the language that Clemens used so effectively to consideration of the images and processes of composition, these essays challenge long-held notions of why Clemens was so successful and so influential a writer. While that search itself is not new, the varied approaches within this collection highlight markedly inventive ways of reading the life and work of Samuel Clemens. |
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... JOHN BIRD " Who Killed Mark Twain ? " Long Live Samuel Clemens ! 218 LAURA E. SKANDERA TROMBLEY AND GARY SCHARNHORST WORKS CITED 227 CONTRIBUTORS 239 INDEX 243 Acknowledgments We would like to thank all the people in.
... lives. We explore and create culture to make sense of the world; Clemens's writings and his life offer seemingly inexhaustible resources for such prospecting. He provides an array of materials most useful to our own work of cultural ...
... lives. All of this leads to a more complex understanding of Clemens: a com- plexity that demonstrates that simplified dichotomies manage only to ob- scure human personalities and relationships. Clemens's personality has never been ...
... Live Samuel Clemens ! " Trombley and Scharn- horst comment on whether Hill was justified in his attack on Twain critics and identify recently published works that have , at times substantially , chal- lenged well - established ...
... lives were so much a mirror image of Huck's . " This story , " he said , " is too close to their real lives . " Twain's consideration of home or absence of home — fostered his uncanny ability to look into the dark corners of human life ...
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To his preferred friends he revealed his true character | 50 |
Mark Twains Mechanical Marvels | 72 |
Steamboats Cocaine and Paper Money | 87 |
Mark Twain Isabel Lyon and the Talking Cure | 101 |
The Minstrel and the Detective | 122 |
Huck Jim and the BlackandWhite Fallacy | 139 |
Black Genes and White Lies | 169 |
Mark Twain in Large and Small | 191 |
Who Killed Mark Twain? Long Live Samuel Clemens | 218 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 239 |