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Author | : Forrest G. Robinson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1995-05-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521445931 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain offers new and thought provoking essays on an author of enduring pre-eminence in the American canon. The book is a collaborative project, assembled by scholars who have played crucial roles in the recent explosion of Twain criticism. Accessible enough to interest both experienced specialists and students new to Twain criticism, the essays examine Twain from a wide variety of critical perspectives, and include timely reflections by major critics on the hotly debated dynamics of race and slavery perceptible throughout his writing. The volume includes a chronology of Twain's life and a list of suggestions for further reading, to provide the students or general reader with sources for background as well as additional information.
Author | : Steven Frye |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107095379 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Literature of the American West Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature of the American West, one of the most vibrant and diverse literary traditions.
Author | : Peter Messent |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2007-03-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 113946227X |
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Mark Twain is a central figure in nineteenth-century American literature, and his novels are among the best-known and most often studied texts in the field. This clear and incisive Introduction provides a biography of the author and situates his works in the historical and cultural context of his times. Peter Messent gives accessible but penetrating readings of the best-known writings including Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He pays particular attention to the way Twain's humour works and how it underpins his prose style. The final chapter provides up-to-date analysis of the recent critical reception of Twain's writing, and summarises the contentious and important debates about his literary and cultural position. The guide to further reading will help those who wish to extend their research and critical work on the author. This book will be of outstanding value to anyone coming to Twain for the first time.
Author | : R. Kent Rasmussen |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 1159 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : 1438108524 |
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Praise for the previous edition:RASD/ALA "Outstanding Reference Source, 1996""'Essential' is the word for it!
Author | : Timothy Parrish |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107013135 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume provides newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics on the social and cultural history of the novel in America. It explores the work of the most influential American novelists of the past 200 years, including Melville, Twain, James, Wharton, Cather, Faulkner, Ellison, Pynchon, and Morrison.
Author | : Peter Messent |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 597 |
Release | : 2015-08-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1119045398 |
Download A Companion to Mark Twain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 concluding essay evaluates the changing landscape of Twain criticism
Author | : Susan K. Harris |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780521556507 |
Download The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Passionate readers both, Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain courted through books, spelling out their expectations through literary references as they corresponded during their frequent separations. Surprisingly, in the process Olivia Langdon reveals herself not as a hypochondriacal hysteric, as many twentieth-century critics have portrayed her, but as a thoughtful intellectual, widely read in literature, history and modern science. Not so surprisingly, Samuel Clemens reveals himself as a critic and a sceptic, lampooning Langdon's physics lessons and her literary heroines. He also shows himself as an astute strategist, carefully manipulating Langdon and her parents. At the same time, Clemens's letters exhibit his own conservatism about women's nature and women's roles, while Langdon's show her carefully choosing from her culture's array of possible role models.
Author | : Peter Messent |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2007-03-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521854450 |
Download The Cambridge Introduction to Mark Twain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Mark Twain is a central figure in nineteenth-century American literature, and his novels are among the best-known and most often studied texts in the field. This clear and incisive Introduction provides a biography of the author and situates his works in the historical and cultural context of his times. Peter Messent gives accessible but penetrating readings of the best-known writings including Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He pays particular attention to the way Twain's humour works and how it underpins his prose style. The final chapter provides up-to-date analysis of the recent critical reception of Twain's writing, and summarises the contentious and important debates about his literary and cultural position. The guide to further reading will help those who wish to extend their research and critical work on the author. This book will be of outstanding value to anyone coming to Twain for the first time.
Author | : Donald Pizer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1995-06-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521438766 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This Companion examines a number of issues related to the terms realism and naturalism. The introduction seeks both to discuss the problems in the use of these two terms in relation to late nineteenth-century fiction and to describe the history of previous efforts to make the terms expressive of American writing of this period. The Companion includes ten essays which fall into four categories: essays on the historical context of realism and naturalism by Louis Budd and Richard Lehan; essays on critical approaches to the movements since the early 1970s by Michael Anesko, essays on the efforts to expand the canon of realism and naturalism by Elizabeth Ammons; and a full-scale discussion of ten major texts, from W. D. Howell's The Rise of Silas Lapham to Jack London's The Call of the Wild, by John W. Crowley, Tom Quirk, J. C. Levenson, Blanche Gelfant, Barbara Hochman, and Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin.
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2011-07 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 0520271521 |
Download Mark Twain’s Book of Animals Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"For those unaware—as I was until I read this book—that Mark Twain was one of America's early animal advocates, Shelley Fisher Fishkin's collection of his writings on animals will come as a revelation. Many of these pieces are as fresh and lively as when they were first written, and it's wonderful to have them gathered in one place." —Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation and The Life You Can Save “A truly exhilarating work. Mark Twain's animal-friendly views would not be out of place today, and indeed, in certain respects, Twain is still ahead of us: claiming, correctly, that there are certain degraded practices that only humans inflict on one another and upon other animals. Fishkin has done a splendid job: I cannot remember reading something so consistently excellent."—Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of When Elephants Weep and The Face on Your Plate "Shelley Fisher Fishkin has given us the lifelong arc of the great man's antic, hilarious, and subtly profound explorations of the animal world, and she's guided us through it with her own trademark wit and acumen. Dogged if she hasn't." —Ron Powers, author of Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain and Mark Twain: A Life