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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... Studies and the Myth of Metaphor 203 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 ...
... studies who over the past decade have laughed at our jokes, read ourwork, listened toour stories, and bought us drinks. Bless you all. Laura: I am grateful to Jennifer Archibald, assistant to the dean of the faculty, who prepared the ...
... studies. That spotlight has rarely, if ever, dimmed. Even if the intensity of the light and angle of the beam have been adjusted by subsequent generations of readers and critics, his reputation has not suffered the typical dark corners ...
... studies flourished as part of a movement to ensure the dominance of U.S. culture and during the last decade of the cultural wars that has seen the firings of multiple canons, each aimed at shaking the literary status quo. Participants ...
... studies. Reflecting on the sequence of scholarship on Clemens-Twain can help us all better understand our own place in the critical parade. Critics donot work ina vacuum. Samuel Clemens did not. None of us do. There has been ...
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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 | 123 |
Huck Jim and the BlackandWhite Fallacy | 139 |
Black Genes and White Lies | 169 |
Mark Twain in Large and Small | 193 |
JOHN BIRD | 206 |
WORKS CITED | 227 |
INDEX | 243 |