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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... thought it especially timely to take an extended look at Clemens's life and work and, perhaps, provide several hints for the major reevaluation that is sure to come. As readers and teachers and commentators on the life and career of ...
... thought of himself as such an historian. He talked of such a "bruising contact of opposites" years earlier as he described his autobiographical method, "a form and method whereby the past and the present are constantly brought face to ...
... thought simple; his relationships (all of them) were nothing if not complex. And the relationship between him and the critics and com- mentators who have worked off of his life and writings remains among the most complex of all. Over ...
... thought had been neglected and called for " spice and flavor , zestful prose , scholarly self - respect , and the courage to offer untraditional perspectives on [ Mark Twain's ] life and works . " 5 We believe the essays selected here ...
... thought I was gone ; but I slid out of the jacket quick as lightning , and saved myself . Pretty soon he was all tired out , and dropped down with his back against 4. Twain , " Adventures of Huckleberry Finn " : A Case Study in Critical ...
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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 |