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Häftad, Engelska, 2020
630 kr
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Mark Twain in the Margins
The Quarry Farm Marginalia and a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur''s Court
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Engelska, 2014634 kr
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The common characterization of Mark Twain as an uneducated and improvisational writer took hold largely because of the novelist''s own frequent claims about his writing practices. But using recently discovered evidence--Twain''s marginal notes in books he consulted as he worked on A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur''s Court--Joe Fulton argues for a reconsideration of scholarly views about Twain''s writing process, showing that this great American author crafted his novels with careful research and calculated design. Fulton analyzes Twain''s voluminous marginalia in the copies of Macaulay''s History of England, Carlyle''s History of the French Revolution, and Lecky''s History of the Rise of Rationalism and England in the Eighteenth Century available to Twain in the library of Quarry Farm, the New York farm where the novelist and his family routinely spent their summers. Comparing these marginal notes to entries in Twain''s writing journal, the manuscript of Connecticut Yankee, and the book as published in 1889, Fulton establishes that Twain''s research decisively influenced the novel. Fulton reveals Twain to be both the writer from experience he claimed to be and the careful craftsman that he attempted to downplay. By redefining Twain''s aesthetic, Fulton reinvigorates current debates about what constitutes literary realism. Fulton''s transcriptions of the marginalia appear in an appendix; together with his analysis, they provide a valuable new resource for Twain scholars.
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
415 kr
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American Literary Cultures highlights literature written by regional authors - particularly those of Texas and the Southwest - and includes readings representative of a broad array of American social and ethnic groups from first contact to early twentieth-century Modernism. Tracing the diverse heritages and global impulses that shaped America, this reader engages undergraduate students by offering a unique collection of texts that comprise American literary cultures.The selections showcase a culturally rich and heterogeneous tradition - indigenous, Latino, European, and African. The narratives and counternarratives offered here introduce students to a diversity of voices - near and far, familiar and foreign, present and historical. Through ballads, lyrical poems, tall tales, short stories, speeches, sermons, memoirs, and discourses on language and literature, students encounter diverse and often challenging works of American literary culture. The texts within and the vast panoply of worldviews and personalities they reflect challenge students to critical, contextual, creative, and empathetic engagement with the past. Through such engagement, students will better appreciate the present as they prepare to become citizens of an increasingly globalized world.
Del 74 - Literary Criticism in Perspective
Mark Twain under Fire
Reception and Reputation, Criticism and Controversy, 1851-2015
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
397 kr
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Tracks the genesis and evolution of Twain's reputation as a writer, revealing how and why the writer has been "under fire" since the advent of his career.Threatened by a rival editor brandishing a double-barreled shotgun, young Samuel Clemens had his first taste of literary criticism. Clemens began his long writing career penning satirical articles for his brother's newspaper in Hannibal, Missouri. His humor delighted everyone except his targets, and it would not be the last time his writing provoked threats of "dissection, tomahawking, libel, and getting his head shot off." Clemens adopted the name Mark Twain while living in the Nevada Territory, where his caustic comedy led to angry confrontations, a challenge to a duel, and a subsequent flight. Nursing his wounded ego in California, Twain vowed to develop a reputation that would"stand fire" and in the process became the classic American writer.Mark Twain under Fire tracks the genesis and evolution of Twain's reputation as a writer: his reception as a humorist, his "return fire" on genteel critics, and the development of academic criticism. As a history of Twain criticism, the book draws on English and foreign-language scholarship. Fulton discusses the forces and ideas that have influenced criticism, revealinghow and why Mark Twain has been "under fire" from the advent of his career to the present day, when his masterpiece Huckleberry Finn remains one of America's most frequently banned books.Joe B. Fulton is Professor of English at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He has published four previous books on Mark Twain.