Download or read book Mark Twain s Which Was the Dream and Other Symbolic Writings of the Later Years written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1966-12-01 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of these selections in this volume were comosed between 1896 and 1905. Mark Twain wrote them after the disasters of the early and middle nineties that had included the decline into bankruptcy of his publishing business, the failure of the typsetting machine in which he invested heavily, and the death of his daughter Susy. Their principal fable is that of a man who has been long favored by luck while pursuing a dream of success that has seemed about to turn into reality. Sudden reverses occur and he experiences a nightmarish time of failure. He clutches at what may be a saving thought: perhaps he is indeed living in a nightmare from which he will awaken to his former felicity. But there is also the possibility that what seems a dream of disaster may be the actuality of his life. The question is the one asked by the titles that he gave to two of his manuscripts: "Which Was the Dream?" and "Which Was It?" He posed a similar question in 1893: "I dreamed I was born, and grew up, and was a pilot on the Mississippi, and a miner and journalist...and had a wife and children...and this dream goes on and on and on, and sometimes seems so real that I almost believe it is real. I wonder if it is?" Behind this naïve query was his strong interest in conscious and unconscious levels of mental experience, which were then being explored by the new psychology.
Download or read book Mark Twain s Which was the Dream written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mark Twain s which was the Dream and Other Symbolic Writings of the Later Years written by Mark Twain (írói név) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Which was the Dream written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Devil s Race track written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain deals with the darker side of life and such themes as fate, death, bankruptcy, family misfortune, failure, and man's infinitesimal role in the cosmic order
Download or read book Mark Twain s Fables of Man written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, many of Twain’s philosophical, religious, and historical fantasies concerning the nature and condition of humanity remained unpublished. Thirty-six of these writings make their first appearance here.
Download or read book Mark Twain And The South written by Arthur G. Pettit and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South was many things to Mark Twain: boyhood home, testing ground for manhood, and the principal source of creative inspiration. Although he left the South while a young man, seldom to return, it remained for him always a haunting presence, alternately loved and loathed. Mark Twain and the South was the first book on this major yet largely ignored aspect of the private life of Samuel Clemens and one of the major themes in his writing from 1863 until his death. Arthur G. Pettit clearly demonstrates that Mark Twain's feelings on race and region moved in an intelligible direction from the white Southern point of view he was exposed to in his youth to self-censorship, disillusionment, and, ultimately, a deeply pessimistic and sardonic outlook in which the dream of racial brotherhood was forever dead. Approaching his subject as a historian with a deep appreciation for literature, he bases his study on a wide variety of Mark Twain's published and unpublished works, including his notebooks, scrapbooks, and letters. An interesting feature of this illuminating work is an examination of Clemens's relations with the only two black men he knew well in his adult years.
Download or read book Dreaming Mark Twain written by Bennett Kravitz and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses new historicist techniques to deconstruct 5 major novels of Mark Twain in order to achieve a cultural critique of America's Gilded Age. It is this application of modern critical techniques to the criticism of Twain's works that makes this book so unique. Dreaming Mark Twain will interest students studying his works as well as American literature students interested in an interdisciplinary study of history and literature. Contents: "Translating Pagan Hours into Christian Miles"; Geographies of the [American] Mind in Innocents Abroad; Myth Making and Myth Breaking in the Gilded Age; Huckleberry Finn: "Self" Constructions and the Pursuit of the Virgin Land; The Connecticut Yankee: Yankee Dreams and Exploding Egos; Hank Morgan's "Will to Power"; Friedrich Nietzsche and the Dark Side of the American Dream; "He Didn't Mean No Harm By It" Mark Twain's Existential Mysterious Stranger; Twain Matters: An Afterword; Works Cited; Works Consulted; General Index; Notes.
Download or read book How True are Dreams written by Henry Nash Smith and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dream of Riches and the Dream of Art written by Janet Ainsworth Rich and published by Dissertations-G. This book was released on 1987 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No 44 The Mysterious Stranger written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-02-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Berkeley, Calif; London: University of California Press, 1969.
Download or read book The Mysterious Stranger written by Mark Twain and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain The Mysterious Stranger is the final novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain. He worked on it periodically from 1897 through 1908. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his ideas of the Moral Sense and the "damned human race." Twain wrote multiple versions of the story; each is unfinished and involves the character of "Satan." "St. Petersburg Fragment" Twain wrote the "St. Petersburg Fragment" in September 1897. It was set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, a name Twain often used for Hannibal, Missouri. The Chronicle of Young Satan The first substantial version is commonly referred to as The Chronicle of Young Satan and relates the adventures of Satan, the sinless nephew of the biblical Satan, in Eseldorf, an Austrian village in the Middle Ages (year 1702). The story ends abruptly in the middle of a scene involving Satan' entertaining a prince in India. Twain wrote this version between November 1897 and September 1900. "Eseldorf" is German for "assville" or "donkeytown." Schoolhouse Hill The second substantial version Twain attempted to write is known as Schoolhouse Hill. It is set in the US and involves the familiar characters Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer and their adventures with Satan, referred to in this version as "No. 44, New Series 864962." Schoolhouse Hill is the shortest of the three versions. Twain began writing it in November 1898 and, like the "St. Petersburg Fragment," set it in the fictional town of St. Petersburg.
Download or read book On Mark Twain written by Louis J. Budd and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in The Best from American Literature series presents articles and profiles the evolution of literary opinion and the shifts of critical emphasis. Beginning with an analysis of science in the thought of Mark Twain, the volume examines his indebtedness to literary comedians, such as George Horatio Derby, better known as John Phoenix; his contributions to the traditions of Southwestern humor; and how he employed images of endangered families. Other topics include: Twain as translator from the German; the composition and structure of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; the style of Huckleberry Finn; his first and only novel about a young girl, Joan of Arc; the four roles into which he cast Satan; the probable meaning of A Connecticut Yankee; and a thematic analysis of Pudd'nhead Wilson. ISBN 0-8223-0759-6: $33.50.
Download or read book Mark Twain as a Literary Artist written by Gladys Carmen Bellamy and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain has been the subject of violent disagreement among critics. Most of them have believed that he was an “unconscious artist,” working by impulse. Mark Twain as a Literary Artist shows that Mark Twain was much more the conscious craftsman than is generally believed. Here is revealed Twain’s violent mental conflict, a logical dilemma, which forced much of his work into distorted patterns of thought and structure. Through years of practice he evolved methods to achieve detachment through techniques such as speaking through the lips of Huckleberry Finn or some other childlike person; placing satiric scenes far off in time or space; diminishing the human race to microscopic proportions so that its wrongs could be treated with detachment; and reducing life to a dream in which the greatest wrongs become tolerable because they seem unreal. Mark Twain as a Literary Artist is a mature, thorough, and revealing reassessment of the mind and methods of one of the most controversial figures in American literature.
Download or read book Mark Twain s Autobiography written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected from Mark Twain's typescript.
Download or read book The Writings of Mark Twain Pseud written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner's satirical novel explores the greed, corruption, and absurdity of American politics and society during the Gilded Age. Follow the lives of two young men, one born into wealth and luxury and the other into poverty and obscurity, as they navigate the treacherous waters of politics and love. With its witty prose and biting commentary on the American Dream, The Gilded Age is a must-read for fans of Mark Twain's humor and social criticism. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain written by J.R. LeMaster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A model reference work that can be used with profit and delight by general readers as well as by more advanced students of Twain. Highly recommended." - Library Journal The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain includes more than 700 alphabetically arranged entries that cover a full variety of topics on this major American writer's life, intellectual milieu, literary career, and achievements. Because so much of Twain's travel narratives, essays, letters, sketches, autobiography, journalism and fiction reflect his personal experience, particular attention is given to the delicate relationship between art and life, between artistic interpretations and their factual source. This comprehensive resource includes information on: Twain’s life and times: the author's childhood in Missouri and apprenticeship as a riverboat pilot, early career as a journalist in the West, world travels, friendships with well-known figures, reading and education, family life and career Complete Works: including novels, travel narratives, short stories, sketches, burlesques, and essays Significant characters, places, and landmarks Recurring concerns, themes or concepts: such as humor, language; race, war, religion, politics, imperialism, art and science Twain’s sources and influences. Useful for students, researchers, librarians and teachers, this volume features a chronology, a special appendix section tracking the poet's genealogy, and a thorough index. Each entry also includes a bibliography for further study.
