Download or read book The Sam Slick Anthology written by Thomas Chandler Haliburton and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sam Slick Anthology Selected and Introduced by Reginald Eyre Watters Text Edited for Modern Readers by Walter S Avis written by Thomas Chandler Haliburton and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Inventing Sam Slick written by Richard A. Davies and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796-1865) was one of pre-confederation Canada's best-known authors. His popular 'Sam Slick the Clockmaker' character was a household name not only in his home country, but also in England and the United States. Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Haliburton was not only a writer, but also a lawyer, judge, politician, and historian. He gained fame for his writing in 1836 with The Clockmaker: or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville for a Halifax newspaper. It became a hit in England and was followed by six sequels. Although Haliburton tried to put Sam Slick aside and work in other genres, he found himself invariably returning to the character in his later books. This commitment to Slick resulted in a curious effacement of Haliburton's own personal gentlemanly identity, which he spent the second half of his life affirming by fostering links with socially well connected family in England. In the public imagination, however, he remained linked with Sam Slick. Based on over ten years of archival research, Richard A. Davies's scholarly biography of Haliburton is the first since 1924. It is an engaging examination of a controversial and contradictory Canadian writer and significant figure in the history of pre-confederation Nova Scotia.

Download or read book Sam Slick written by Thomas Chandler Haliburton and published by . This book was released on 1981-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sam Slick pseud in Texas Or The Piney Woods written by Samuel Slick (pseud. [i.e. Thomas Chandler Haliburton.]) and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sam Slick in Texas Or The Piney Woods written by Samuel Slick (pseud. [i.e. Thomas Chandler Haliburton.]) and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Clockmaker Or the Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick written by Haliburton and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale written by Henry B. Wonham and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale explores a predominantly American comic strategy and its role in Mark Twain's fiction. Focusing on the writer's experiments with narrative structure, Wonham describes how Twain manipulated conventional approaches to reading and writing by engaging his audience in a series of rhetorical games - the rules of which he adapted from the conventions of the tall tale in American oral and written traditions. After surveying the rich history of yarn-spinning in America, Wonham traces Twain's appropriation of the genre through the course of his career, from The Innocents Abroad to Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Pudd'nhead Wilson. He contends that as Twain turned from short sketches to extended travelogues and quasi-fiction, he found in the tall tale a means of dramatizing his disparate comic material. Later, as Twain worked consciously to purge his writing of its anecdotal quality, the oral genre remained central to his imagination - less as a source of comic material than as a paradigmatic encounter between competing points of view, an encounter that resonates throughout the author's major fiction. Offering an original interpretation of Twain's narrative and rhetorical techniques, this absorbing and readable study will interest Twain enthusiasts and students of nineteenth-century American literature, as well as anyone interested in American humor and oral narrative traditions.

Download or read book Now We are Sick written by Neil Gaiman and published by Dreamhaven Bks & Art. This book was released on 1994 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sam Slick the clockmaker Two volumes complete in one written by Thomas Chandler Haliburton and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Clockmaker written by Thomas Chandler Haliburton and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sam Slick written by Thomas C. Haliburton and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Anthology of Rap written by Adam Bradley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the school yards of the South Bronx to the tops of the "Billboard" charts, rap has emerged as one of the most influential cultural forces of our time. This pioneering anthology brings together more than 300 lyrics written over 30 years, from the "old school" to the present day.

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Download or read book Made in Canada Humour written by Beverly J. Rasporich and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made-in-Canada-Humour is an interdisciplinary survey and analysis of Canadian humour and humorists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book focuses on a variety of genres. It includes celebrated Canadian writers and poets with ironic and satiric perspectives; oral storytellers of tall tales in the country and the city; newspaper print humorists; representative national and regional cartoonists; and comedians of stage, radio and television. The humour gives voice to Canadian values and experiences, and consequently, techniques and styles of humour particular to the country. While a persistent comic theme has been joking at the expense of the United States, both countries have influenced one another’s humour. Canada’s unique humorous tradition also reflects its emergence from a colonial country to a postcolonial and postmodern nation with contemporary humour that addresses gender and racial issues.