Mark Twain And The Tall Tale Imagination In Nineteenth Century America

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Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale

Author : Henry B. Wonham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195360192
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale written by Henry B. Wonham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-03-18 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale is a study of a peculiar 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 tall tale in American oral and written traditions. Wonham goes on to show how Twain's appropriation of the genre developed through the course of his career, from The Innocents Abroad to Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Pudd'nhead Wilson. This eminently 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.

Youth Literature

Author : W. Bernard Lukenbill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780824084981
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Youth Literature written by W. Bernard Lukenbill and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1988 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1911 Original Publisher: Eaton

Dissertation Abstracts International

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Studies International

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Studies International written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mark Twain

Author : Harold H. Kolb
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761864210
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain written by Harold H. Kolb and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain is America’s—perhaps the world’s—best known humorous writer. Yet many commentators in his time and our own have thought of humor as merely an attractive surface feature rather than a crucial part of both the meaning and the structure of Twain’s writings. This book begins with a discussion of humor, and then demonstrates how Twain’s artistic strategies, his remarkable achievements, and even his philosophy were bound together in his conception of humor, and how this conception developed across a forty-five year career. Kolb shows that Twain is a writer whose lifelong mode of perception is essentially humorous, a writer who sees the world in the sharp clash of contrast, whose native language is exaggeration, and whose vision unravels and reorganizes our perceptions. Humor, in all its mercurial complexity, is at the center of Mark Twain’s talent, his successes, and his limitations. It is as a humorist—amiably comic, sharply satiric, grimly ironic, simultaneously humorous and serious—that he is best understood.

Catastrophe and Imagination

Author : John McCormick
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412819176
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Catastrophe and Imagination written by John McCormick and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1971 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catastrophe and Imagination explores fiction in America and England from 1870 to 1950, measuring the impact of the twentieth century's wars on the literary imagination. McCormick holds that the novel has a unique relationship to society, and defines this in relation to the many catastrophes of his era - wars, revolutions, and other outrages on the social order. After an initial survey of society in the novels of Jane Austen, Dickens, and Thackeray, to name only a few, he analyzes what the novel is not, with reference to the work of Virginia Woolf, John Steinbeck, and D. H. Lawrence.

A Companion to Mark Twain

Author : Peter Messent
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119045398
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Mark Twain written by Peter Messent and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

The Trickster Figure in American Literature

Author : Winifred Morgan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137344725
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book The Trickster Figure in American Literature written by Winifred Morgan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes and offers fresh insights into the trickster tradition including African American, American Indian, Euro-American, Asian American, and Latino/a stories, Morgan examines the oral roots of each racial/ethnic group to reveal how each group's history, frustrations, and aspirations have molded the tradition in contemporary literature.

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain

Author : J.R. LeMaster
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135881359
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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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.

Western American Literature

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Western American Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The American Imagination at Work

Author : Ben Crocker Clough
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The American Imagination at Work written by Ben Crocker Clough and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Palestine

Author : Hilton Obenzinger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691009735
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book American Palestine written by Hilton Obenzinger and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-14 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 19th century, American tourists, scholars, evangelists, writers and artists flocked to Palestine. Focusing on works by Melville and Twain, this book throws new light on the construction ot American identity in the 19th century.

Unified English

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Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unified English written by and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Huck Finn's America

Author : Andrew Levy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439186960
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Huck Finn's America written by Andrew Levy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Mark Twain's writing of Huckleberry Finn, calling into question commonly held interpretations of the work on the subjects of youth, youth culture, and race relations, based on research into the social preoccupations of the era in which it was written.

Critical Companion to Mark Twain

Author : R. Kent Rasmussen
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438108524
Total Pages : 1159 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Critical Companion to Mark Twain written by R. Kent Rasmussen and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 1159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the previous edition:RASD/ALA "Outstanding Reference Source, 1996""'Essential' is the word for it!

Monumental Lies

Author : Ronald M. James
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 1647791170
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Monumental Lies written by Ronald M. James and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A playful embrace of tall tales and exaggeration, Monumental Lies explores the evolution of folklore in the Wild West. Monumental Lies: Early Nevada Folklore of the Wild West invites readers to explore how legends and traditions emerged during the first decades following the “Rush to Washoe,” which transformed the Nevada Territory after in 1859. During this Wild West period, there was widespread celebration of deceit, manifesting in tall tales, burlesque lies, practical jokes, and journalistic hoaxes. Humor was central, and practitioners easily found themselves scorned if they failed to be adequately funny. The tens of thousands of people who came to the West, attracted by gold and silver mining, brought distinct cultural legacies. The interaction of diverse perspectives, even while new stories and traditions coalesced, was a complex process. Author Ronald M. James addresses how the fluidity of the region affected new expressions of folklore as they took root. The wildly popular Mark Twain is often a go-to source for collections of early tall tales of this region, but his interaction with local traditions was specific and narrow. More importantly, William Wright—publishing as Dan De Quille—arose as a key collector of legends, a counterpart of early European folklorists. With a bedrock understanding of what unfolded in the nineteenth century, James considers how these early stories helped shaped the culture of the Wild West.

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195092622
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of American Short Stories written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.