Constructing Mark Twain : new directions in scholarship / edited with an introduction by Laura E. Skandera Trombley and Michael J. Kiskis
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- 其他題名：
- Mark Twain and his circle series
- 出版： Columbia : University of Missouri Press c2001
- 叢書名： Mark Twain and his circle series
- 主題： Twain, Mark , Criticism and interpretation , Criticism , History , Twain, Mark--Criticism and interpretation--20th century. , Criticism--History--20th century--United States
- ISBN： 0826213774 (hbk.): NT$1267 、 9780826213778
- 一般註：Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-237) and index. Also issued online
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- 系統號： 000615912 | 機讀編目格式
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The thirteen essays in this collection combine to offer a complex and deeply nuanced picture of Samuel Clemens. With the purpose of straying from the usual notions of Clemens (most notably the Clemens/Twain split that has ruled Twain scholarship for over thirty years), the editors have assembled contributions from a wide range of Twain scholars. As a whole, the collection argues that it is time we approach Clemens not as a shadow behind the literary persona but as a complex and intricate creator of stories, a creator who is deeply embedded in the political events of his time and who used a mix of literary, social, and personal experience to fuel the movements of his pen. The essays illuminate Clemens's connections with people and events not usually given the spotlight and introduce us to Clemens as a man deeply embroiled in the process of making literary gold out of everyday experiences. From Clemens's wonderings on race and identity to his looking to family and domesticity as defining experiences, from musings on the language that Clemens used so effectively to consideration of the images and processes of composition, these essays challenge long-held notions of why Clemens was so successful and so influential a writer. While that search itself is not new, the varied approaches within this collection highlight markedly inventive ways of reading the life and work of Samuel Clemens.
內容註
Mark Twain and the tradition of literary domesticity / Michael J. Kiskis -- Samuel Clemens as family man and father / Victor A. Doyno -- "To his preferred friends he revealed his true character": Mary Mason Fairbank's disguised debate with Sam Clemens" / J.D. Stahl -- Mark Twain's mechanical marvels / Jeffrey Steinbrink -- Steamboats, cocaine, and paper money: Mark Twain rewriting himself / Robert Sattelmeyer -- Mark Twain, Isabel Lyon, and the "talking cure": negotiating nostalgia and nihilism in the Autobiography / Jennifer L. Zaccara -- The minstrel and the detective: the functions of ethnic caricature in Mark Twain's writings of the 1890's / Henry B. Wonham -- Huck, Jim, and the "black-and-white" fallacy / James S. Leonard -- Humor, sentimentality, and Mark Twain's black characters / David L. Smith -- Black genes and white lies: Twain and the romance of race / Ann M. Ryan -- Mark Twain in large and small / the infinite and the infinitesimal in Twain's late writing / Tom Quirk -- Mark Twain studies and the myth of metaphor / John Bird -- "Who killed Mark Twain?" Long live Samuel Clemens! / Laura E. Skandera Trombley and Gary Scharnhorst