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A companion to Mark Twain /...
This broad-ranging companion brings together respected American and European critics and a number of up-and-coming scholars to provide an overview of Twain, his background, his writings, and his place in American literary history. One of the most broad-ranging volumes to appear on Mark Twain in recent years Brings together respected Twain critics and a number of younger scholars in the field to provide an overview of this central figure in American literature Places special emphasis on the ways in which Twain's works remain both relevant and important for a twenty-first century audience A c.
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monografia Rebiun22427620 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun22427620 m o d cr cnu---unuuu 060124s2005 mau obf 001 0 eng d 2005006594 935228365 1405152192 electronic bk.) 9781405152198 electronic bk.) UPVA 997916193003706 CBUC 991001003790406712 CBUC 991010492572606709 CBUC 991010492572606709 N$T eng pn N$T OCLCQ YDXCP OCLCG OCLCQ IDEBK OCLCQ OCLCF OCLCO OCLCQ OCL OCLCQ EBLCP OCLCA LOA ZCU MERUC K6U G3B CNCEN S8J ICG DKC OCLCQ UKAHL LIT 004020 bisacsh A companion to Mark Twain edited by Peter Messent and Louis J. Budd Malden, MA Oxford Blackwell Pub. 2005 Malden, MA Oxford Malden, MA Oxford Blackwell Pub. 1 online resource (xviii, 568 pages) 1 online resource (xviii, 568 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Blackwell companions to literature and culture 37 Includes bibliographical references and index A COMPANION TO MARK TWAIN; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Note on Referencing; Acknowledgments; PART I The Cultural Context; 1 Mark Twain and Nation; 2 Mark Twain and Human Nature; 3 Mark Twain and America's Christian Mission Abroad; 4 Mark Twain and Whiteness; 5 Mark Twain and Gender; 6 Twain and Modernity; 7 Mark Twain and Politics; 8 "The State, it is I": Mark Twain, Imperialism, and the New Americanists; PART II Mark Twain and Others; 9 Twain, Language, and the Southern Humorists; 10 The "American Dickens": Mark Twain and Charles Dickens; 11 Nevada Influences on Mark Twain 12 The Twain-Cable Combination13 Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Realism; PART III Mark Twain: Publishing and Performing; 14 "I don't know A from B": Mark Twain and Orality; 15 Mark Twain and the Profession of Writing; 16 Mark Twain and the Promise and Problems of Magazines; 17 Mark Twain and the Stage; 18 Mark Twain on the Screen; PART IV Mark Twain and Travel; 19 Twain and the Mississippi; 20 Mark Twain and the Literary Construction of the American West; 21 Mark Twain and Continental Europe; 22 Mark Twain and Travel Writing; PART V Mark Twain's Fiction; 23 Mark Twain's Short Fiction 24 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Prince and the Pauper as Juvenile Literature25 Plotting and Narrating "Huck"; 26 Going to Tom's Hell in Huckleberry Finn; 27 History, "Civilization," and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; 28 Mark Twain's Dialects; 29 Killing Half A Dog, Half A Novel: The Trouble With The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and The Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins; 30 Dreaming Better Dreams: The Late Writing of Mark Twain; PART VI Mark Twain's Humor; 31 Mark Twain's Visual Humor; 32 Mark Twain and Post-Civil War Humor; 33 Mark Twain and Amiable Humor 34 Mark Twain and the Enigmas of WitPART VII A Retrospective; 35 The State of Mark Twain Studies; Index This broad-ranging companion brings together respected American and European critics and a number of up-and-coming scholars to provide an overview of Twain, his background, his writings, and his place in American literary history. One of the most broad-ranging volumes to appear on Mark Twain in recent years Brings together respected Twain critics and a number of younger scholars in the field to provide an overview of this central figure in American literature Places special emphasis on the ways in which Twain's works remain both relevant and important for a twenty-first century audience A c. Twain, Mark 1835-1910)- Criticism and interpretation-- Handbooks, manuals, etc Twain, Mark 1835-1910) LITERARY CRITICISM- American- General Twain, Mark, -- 1835-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Handbooks and manuals Messent, Peter B. Budd, Louis J. Print version Companion to Mark Twain. Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2005 1405123796 (DLC) 2005006594 (OCoLC)58546933 Blackwell companions to literature and culture 37