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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... lost . The concept of a limitless space , instead of frightening Twain , appeared to intrigue him and served as the subject for his essay " Was the World Made for Man ? " Twain was also fascinated with the infinitesimal and wrote about ...
... lost Susy thirteen years ago; I lost her mother—her incompara- ble mother!—five and a half years ago; Clara has gone away to life in Europe; and now I have lost Jean. How poor I am, who was once so rich! Seven months ago Mr. Rogers died ...
... . Undoubtedly Sam was occasionally or frequently forgetful ; he was impul- sive ; he was moody . Moreover , he had very poor financial judgment and misinvested and thereby lost great sums of money. He traveled 32 Victor A. Doyno.
... lost great sums of money. He traveled a great deal and left a disproportionate amount of responsibility to Livy. Among his flaws we should note that he would impulsively and expansively invite ac- quaintances to visit at the Hartford ...
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Inhalt
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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 |