Author: Virginia L. Bonham
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Ambiguity of Innocence in Mark Twain's Novels
The Innocent Eye
Author: Albert E. Stone
Publisher: [Hamden, Conn.] : Archon Books, 1970 [c1961]
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher: [Hamden, Conn.] : Archon Books, 1970 [c1961]
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Mark Twain and the Backwoods Angel
Author: William C. Spengemann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Satire Or Evasion?
Author: James S. Leonard
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822311744
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Ranging from the laudatory to the openly hostile, 15 essays by prominent African American scholars and critics examine the novel's racist elements and assess the degree to which Twain's ironies succeed or fail to turn those elements into a satirical attack on racism. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822311744
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Ranging from the laudatory to the openly hostile, 15 essays by prominent African American scholars and critics examine the novel's racist elements and assess the degree to which Twain's ironies succeed or fail to turn those elements into a satirical attack on racism. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Mark Twain
Theses in American Literature, 1896-1971
Author: Patsy Cliffene Howard
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Lit
Author:
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The Mysterious Stranger
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Twain's nihilistic tale, set in the 1590's, about an Austrian boy who encounters an angel called Satan who reveals to the boy the true nature of existence: 'nothing exists but you'.
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Twain's nihilistic tale, set in the 1590's, about an Austrian boy who encounters an angel called Satan who reveals to the boy the true nature of existence: 'nothing exists but you'.
In Bad Faith
Author: Forrest Glen Robinson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674445284
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Something is not right in the world of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. The unease is less evident to Tom, the manipulator, than to the socially marginal Huck. The trouble is most dramatically revealed when Huck, whose "sivilized" Christian conscience is developing, faces the choice between betraying his black friend Jim--which he believes is his moral duty--and letting him escape, as his heart tells him to do. "Bad faith" is Forrest Robinson's name for the dissonance between what we profess to believe, how we act, and how we interpret our own behavior. There is bad faith in the small hypocrisies of daily living, but Robinson has a much graver issue in mind--namely slavery, which persisted for nearly a century in a Christian republic founded on ideals of freedom, equality, and justice. Huck, living on the fringes of small-town society, recognizes Jim's humanity and understands the desperateness of his plight. Yet Huck is white, a member of the dominant class; he is at once influenced and bewildered by the contradictions of bad faith in the minds of his fully acculturated contemporaries. Robinson stresses that "bad faith" is more than a theme with Mark Twain; his bleak view of man's social nature (however humorously expressed), his nostalgia, his ambivalence about the South, his complex relationship to his audience, can all be traced back to an awareness of the deceits at the core of his culture--and he is not himself immune. This deeply perceptive book will be of interest to students of American literature and history and to anyone concerned with moral issues.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674445284
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Something is not right in the world of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. The unease is less evident to Tom, the manipulator, than to the socially marginal Huck. The trouble is most dramatically revealed when Huck, whose "sivilized" Christian conscience is developing, faces the choice between betraying his black friend Jim--which he believes is his moral duty--and letting him escape, as his heart tells him to do. "Bad faith" is Forrest Robinson's name for the dissonance between what we profess to believe, how we act, and how we interpret our own behavior. There is bad faith in the small hypocrisies of daily living, but Robinson has a much graver issue in mind--namely slavery, which persisted for nearly a century in a Christian republic founded on ideals of freedom, equality, and justice. Huck, living on the fringes of small-town society, recognizes Jim's humanity and understands the desperateness of his plight. Yet Huck is white, a member of the dominant class; he is at once influenced and bewildered by the contradictions of bad faith in the minds of his fully acculturated contemporaries. Robinson stresses that "bad faith" is more than a theme with Mark Twain; his bleak view of man's social nature (however humorously expressed), his nostalgia, his ambivalence about the South, his complex relationship to his audience, can all be traced back to an awareness of the deceits at the core of his culture--and he is not himself immune. This deeply perceptive book will be of interest to students of American literature and history and to anyone concerned with moral issues.
Reading the American Novel 1865 - 1914
Author: G. R. Thompson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444344250
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, Reading the American Novel 1865-1914 provides a comprehensive introduction to the American novel in the post-civil war period. Locates American novels and stories within a specific historical and literary context Offers fresh analyses of key selected literary works Addresses a wide audience of academics and non-academics in clear, accessible prose Demonstrates the changing mentality of 19th-century America entering the 20th century Explores the relationship between the intellectual and artistic output of the time and the turbulent socio-political context
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444344250
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, Reading the American Novel 1865-1914 provides a comprehensive introduction to the American novel in the post-civil war period. Locates American novels and stories within a specific historical and literary context Offers fresh analyses of key selected literary works Addresses a wide audience of academics and non-academics in clear, accessible prose Demonstrates the changing mentality of 19th-century America entering the 20th century Explores the relationship between the intellectual and artistic output of the time and the turbulent socio-political context