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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... response, he presented many of his stories in forms that left the final reaction and response open to his readers. They too, demanded Clemens, must participate in the dialogue. In all, Clemens was both a participant in and an instigator ...
... response to the final adventures that argues for the unified whole. It fascinates me that each of these approaches is still in play; none has been effectively calmed. I now have a sense that we have recently turned a critical corner and ...
... and Livy's attentiveness, caution, and tearfulness seem, even at this temporal distance, to be quite reasonable and rational responses to their lived reality. We have a great many resources to draw upon to 34 Victor A. Doyno.
... response titled "What Ought He to Have Done?" on child rearing and familial discipline that Sam wrote for the Christian Union in 1885 in response to a specific, terrible situation.4 While reading this relatively unknown material ...
... response because we, as moderns, need to know fully the nature of the conflicts about child rearing in 1885. The father who disciplined his child probably was certain he was acting for the child's good. The magazine query "What Ought He ...
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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 |