Download or read book The Ambiguity of Innocence in Mark Twain s Novels written by Virginia L. Bonham and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mark Twain and the Backwoods Angel written by William C. Spengemann and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Innocent Eye written by Albert E. Stone and published by [Hamden, Conn.] : Archon Books, 1970 [c1961]. This book was released on 1970 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mercurial Mark Twain s written by James L. Machor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was Mark Twain? Was he the genial author of two beloved boys books, the white-haired and white-suited avuncular humorist, the realistic novelist, the exposer of shams, the author repressed by bourgeois values, or the social satirist whose later writings embody an increasingly dark view? In light of those and other conceptions, the question we need to ask is not who he was but how did we get so many Mark Twains? The Mercurial Mark Twains(s): Reception History and Iconic Authorship provides answers to that question by examining the way Twain, his texts, and his image have been constructed by his audiences. Drawing on archival records of responses from common readers, reviewer reactions, analyses by Twain scholars and critics, and film and television adaptations, this study provides the first wide-ranging, fine-grained historical analysis of Twain’s reception in both the public and private spheres, from the 1860s until the end of the twentieth century.
Download or read book The Mysterious Stranger written by Mark Twain and published by Cosimo Classics. This book was released on 1916 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twain's nihilistic tale, set in the 1590's, about an Austrian boy who encounters an angel called Satan who reveals to the boy the true nature of existence: 'nothing exists but you'.
Download or read book In Bad Faith written by Forrest Glen Robinson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something is not right in the world of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. The unease is less evident to Tom, the manipulator, than to the socially marginal Huck. The trouble is most dramatically revealed when Huck, whose "sivilized" Christian conscience is developing, faces the choice between betraying his black friend Jim--which he believes is his moral duty--and letting him escape, as his heart tells him to do. "Bad faith" is Forrest Robinson's name for the dissonance between what we profess to believe, how we act, and how we interpret our own behavior. There is bad faith in the small hypocrisies of daily living, but Robinson has a much graver issue in mind--namely slavery, which persisted for nearly a century in a Christian republic founded on ideals of freedom, equality, and justice. Huck, living on the fringes of small-town society, recognizes Jim's humanity and understands the desperateness of his plight. Yet Huck is white, a member of the dominant class; he is at once influenced and bewildered by the contradictions of bad faith in the minds of his fully acculturated contemporaries. Robinson stresses that "bad faith" is more than a theme with Mark Twain; his bleak view of man's social nature (however humorously expressed), his nostalgia, his ambivalence about the South, his complex relationship to his audience, can all be traced back to an awareness of the deceits at the core of his culture--and he is not himself immune. This deeply perceptive book will be of interest to students of American literature and history and to anyone concerned with moral issues.
Download or read book Those Extraordinary Twins written by Mark Twain and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally part of the Pudd'nhead Wilson book, Twain realised during the writing process that the twins were taking a backseat to characters such as Pudd'nhead Wilson, Roxy, and Tom Driscoll. As a result, he took them out and gave them their own short story. He explains all this in the Introduction to this book.
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 1982 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain's last novel rich with boyhood memories of The Mississippi River Valley, but set in medieval Austria.
Download or read book Neither Nor written by John S. Fawley and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzes the roles of innocents and heroes in Mark Twains writings and then discusses the nature of the conflicts between them.
Download or read book The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories written by Mark Twain and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories" by Mark Twain was an experimental novel of sorts written by the acclaimed American writer. Twain worked on this story over multiple years, revising and rewriting it as time went on, but with a few key characteristics that remained throughout. This supernatural novel is a quirky adventure that will keep readers enticed until the last page.
Download or read book Satire Or Evasion written by James S. Leonard and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from the laudatory to the openly hostile, 15 essays by prominent African American scholars and critics examine the novel's racist elements and assess the degree to which Twain's ironies succeed or fail to turn those elements into a satirical attack on racism. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Complicity and the Politics of Representation written by Cornelia Wächter and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an introduction to an important and timely topic, namely the study of complicity and the politics of representation. It elaborates on recent work on complicity and applies recent research on complicity to critical whiteness studies, critical memory studies, critical psychology and psychiatry.
Download or read book Reading the American Novel 1865 1914 written by G. R. Thompson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, Reading the American Novel 1865-1914 provides a comprehensive introduction to the American novel in the post-civil war period. Locates American novels and stories within a specific historical and literary context Offers fresh analyses of key selected literary works Addresses a wide audience of academics and non-academics in clear, accessible prose Demonstrates the changing mentality of 19th-century America entering the 20th century Explores the relationship between the intellectual and artistic output of the time and the turbulent socio-political context
Download or read book The Writings of Mark Twain The man that corrupted Hadleyburg and other essays and stories written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pudd nhead Wilson and Other Tales written by Mark Twain and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-06-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) was Mark Twain's last serious work of fiction, and perhaps the only real novel that he ever produced. Written in a more sombre vein than his other Mississippi writings, the novel reveals the sinister forces that Mark Twain felt to be threatening the American dream. In spite of a plot which includes child swapping, palmistry, and a pair of Italian twins, this astringent work also raises the serious issue of racial differences. This volume also includes two other late works `Those Extraordinary Twins' and `The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg'. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Download or read book Theses in American Literature 1896 1971 written by Patsy Cliffene Howard and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Decay of the Art of Lying written by Mark Twain and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Decay of the Art of Lying is a short essay written by Mark Twain. It satirizes the tendency of people to deceive and lie, while aiming to show how deception can be expertly done by anyone.
