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22 produkter
Was Huck Black?
Mark Twain and African-American Voices
E-bok, 1994
375 kr
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Published in 1884, Huck Finn has become one of the most widely taught novels in American curricula. But where did Huckleberry Finn come from, and what made it so distinctive? Shelley Fisher Fishkin suggests that in Huckleberry Finn , more than in any other work, Mark Twain let African-American …
Historical Guide to Mark Twain
E-bok, 2002
338 kr
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Mark Twain (born Samuel Clemens), a former printer''s apprentice, journalist, steamboat pilot, and miner, remains to this day one of the most enduring and beloved of America''s great writers. Combining cultural criticism with historical scholarship, A Historical Guide to Mark Twain addresses a wide …
Was Huck Black?
Mark Twain and African-American Voices
Häftad, 1994
560 kr
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Published in 1884, Huckleberry Finn has become one of the msot widely taught novels in American curricula. But where did it come from, and what made it so distinctive? Shelley Fisher Fishkin suggests that in Huckleberry Finn, more than any other work, Mark Twain let African-American voices, …
Lighting Out for the Territory
Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture
Häftad, 1998
298 kr
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Mark Twain has been called the American Cervantes, our Homer, our Tolstoy, our Shakespeare. Ernest Hemingway maintained that `all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn'. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took the phrase `New Deal' from A Connecticut …
From Fact to Fiction
Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America
Häftad, 1988
410 kr
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Scholars and students of American literature or journalism.
Was Huck Black?
Mark Twain and African-American Voices
E-bok, 1993
375 kr
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Published in 1884, Huck Finn has become one of the most widely taught novels in American curricula. But where did Huckleberry Finn come from, and what made it so distinctive? Shelley Fisher Fishkin suggests that in Huckleberry Finn , more than in any other work, Mark Twain let African-American …
Lighting Out for the Territory
Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture
E-bok, 1996
190 kr
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Mark Twain has been called the American Cervantes, our Homer, our Tolstoy, our Shakespeare. Ernest Hemingway maintained that "all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn ." President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took the phrase "New Deal" from A Connecticut …
Historical Guide to Mark Twain
E-bok, 2002
380 kr
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Mark Twain (born Samuel Clemens), a former printer''s apprentice, journalist, steamboat pilot, and miner, remains to this day one of the most enduring and beloved of America''s great writers. Combining cultural criticism with historical scholarship, A Historical Guide to Mark Twain addresses a wide …
Jim
The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade
Inbunden, 2025
268 kr
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The origins and influence of Jim, Mark Twain’s beloved yet polarizing literary figure “Astute. . . . Sheds new light on a much-studied character.”—Publishers Weekly Mark Twain’s Jim, introduced in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), is a shrewd, self‑aware, and enormously admirable enslaved man, …
Jim
The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade
Häftad, 2026
186 kr
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The origins and influence of Jim, Mark Twain’s beloved yet polarizing literary figure “Astute. . . . Sheds new light on a much-studied character.”—Publishers Weekly Mark Twain’s Jim, introduced in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), is a shrewd, self‑aware, and enormously admirable enslaved man, …
Is He Dead?
A Comedy in Three Acts
Av Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Häftad, 2006
515 kr
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The University of California Press is delighted to announce the new publication of this three-act play by one of America's most important and well-loved writers. A highly entertaining comedy that has never appeared in print or on stage, "Is He Dead?" is finally available to the wide audience Mark …
Mark Twain’s Book of Animals
Av Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Häftad, 2011
254 kr
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Longtime admirers of Mark Twain are aware of how integral animals were to his work as a writer, from his first stories through his final years, including many pieces that were left unpublished at his death. This beautiful volume, illustrated with 30 new images by master engraver Barry Moser, …
Is He Dead?
A Comedy in Three Acts
Av Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin
E-bok, 2003
399 kr
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The University of California Press is delighted to announce the new publication of this three-act play by one of America''s most important and well-loved writers. A highly entertaining comedy that has never appeared in print or on stage, Is He Dead? is finally available to the wide audience Mark …
Mark Twain's Book of Animals
Av Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin
E-bok, 2009
419 kr
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Longtime admirers of Mark Twain are aware of how integral animals were to his work as a writer, from his first stories through his final years, including many pieces that were left unpublished at his death. This beautiful volume, illustrated with 30 new images by master engraver Barry Moser, …
Encyclopaedia of Civil Rights in America
Av Samuel D Bradley, Shelley Fisher Fishkin
1997
3405 kr
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"The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America" is a comprehensive reference source on the human rights and civil liberties that are legally recognized in the US. The US Consitution and the Bill of Rights define individual rights for Americans. The successive amendments to the Constitution and …
Sport of the Gods
and Other Essential Writings
Av Paul Laurence Dunbar, Shelley Fisher Fishkin m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
259 kr
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Writing America
Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee (a Reader's Companion)
Inbunden, 2015
571 kr
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Winner of the John S. Tuckey 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award for Mark Twain Scholarship from The Center for Mark Twain StudiesAmerican novelist E.L. Doctorow once observed that literature “endows places with meaning.” Yet, as this wide-ranging new book vividly illustrates, understanding the places …
Writing America
Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee (a Reader's Companion)
Häftad, 2017
275 kr
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Winner of the John S. Tuckey 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award for Mark Twain Scholarship from The Center for Mark Twain StudiesAmerican novelist E.L. Doctorow once observed that literature “endows places with meaning.” Yet, as this wide-ranging new book vividly illustrates, understanding the places …
Zhi Lin
In Search of the Lost History of Chinese Migrants and the Transcontinental Railroads
Av Rock Hushka, Shelley Fisher Fishkin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
416 kr
Kommande
In this pointed and resonant project, internationally acclaimed artist Zhi Lin refocuses on the forgotten Chinese laborers in America from an iconic moment in US history. In the nineteenth century, thousands of men migrated from China to seek fortunes in the gold mines of California; instead they …
Chinese and the Iron Road
Building the Transcontinental Railroad
Av Gordon H. Chang, Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Inbunden, 2019
1505 kr
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The completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The Railroad made it possible to cross the country in a matter of days instead of months, paved the way for new settlers to come out west, and …
Chinese and the Iron Road
Building the Transcontinental Railroad
Av Gordon H. Chang, Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Häftad, 2019
353 kr
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The completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The Railroad made it possible to cross the country in a matter of days instead of months, paved the way for new settlers to come out west, and …
Chinese and the Iron Road
Building the Transcontinental Railroad
Av Gordon H. Chang, Shelley Fisher Fishkin
E-bok, 2019
288 kr
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The completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The Railroad made it possible to cross the country in a matter of days instead of months, paved the way for new settlers to come out west, and …
