Author: Mark TwainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Mark Twain, the Mammoth Cod
Author: Mark TwainMammoth Cod and Address to the Stomach Club
Author: Mark TwainThe Mammoth Cod, and Address to the Stomach Club
Author: Mark TwainThe Mammoth Cod, and Address to the Stomach Club
Author: Mark TwainBlow the Candle Out (c)
Author: Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610750769
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore, Volume II, Folk Rhymes and Other Lore
The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People
Author: Irving WallacePublisher: Feral House
ISBN: 1932595295
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Presents intimate and revealing information about the sexual exploits of over two hundred famous individuals of the near and distant past.
Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs
Author: Susan DavisPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252051459
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Collector of sexual folklore. Cataloger of erotica. Tireless social critic. Gershon Legman's singular, disreputable resume made him a counter-cultural touchstone during his forty-year exile in France. Despite his obscurity today, Legman’s prescient work and passion for the prurient laid the groundwork for our contemporary study of the forbidden.Susan G. Davis follows the life and times of the figure driven to share what he found in civilization's secret libraries. Self-taught and fiercely unaffiliated, Legman collected the risqué on street corners and in theaters and dug it out of little-known archives. If the sexual humor he uncovered often used laughter to disguise hostility and fear, he still believed it indispensable to the human experience. Davis reveals Legman in all his prickly, provocative complexity as an outrageous nonconformist thundering at a wrong-headed world while reveling in conflict, violating laws and boundaries with equal abandon, and pursuing love and improbable adventures. Through it all, he maintained a kaleidoscopic network of friends, fellow intellectuals, celebrity admirers, and like-minded obsessives.
Chasing the Last Laugh
Author: Richard ZacksPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0345802535
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
In the 1890s, Mark Twain came back from the dead. The famous author’s career was collapsing, his masterpieces were at risk of falling into oblivion, and he was even mistakenly reported dead. But Twain orchestrated an amazing late-in-life comeback from bankruptcy, bad reviews, and family disaster by setting out on an unprecedented international comedy tour to restore his fortunes. Richard Zacks’s Chasing the Last Laugh captures some of Twain’s cleverest and funniest moments—many newly discovered in unpublished notebooks and letters—as he rode elephants in India, sorted diamonds in South Africa, and talked his way out of hell ninety minutes at a time. This untold chapter in the author’s life began with ridiculously bad choices and ended in hard-won triumph.
Unsettled States
Author: Dana LucianoPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479857726
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
In Unsettled States, Dana Luciano and Ivy G. Wilson present some of the most exciting emergent scholarship in American literary and cultural studies of the “long” nineteenth century. Featuring eleven essays from senior scholars across the discipline, the book responds to recent critical challenges to the boundaries, both spatial and temporal, that have traditionally organized scholarship within the field. The volume considers these recent challenges to be aftershocks of earlier revolutions in content and method, and it seeks ways of inhabiting and amplifying the ongoing unsettledness of the field. Written by scholars primarily working in the “minor” fields of critical race and ethnic studies, feminist and gender studies, labor studies, and queer/sexuality studies, the essays share a minoritarian critical orientation. Minoritarian criticism, as an aesthetic, political, and ethical project, is dedicated to finding new connections and possibilities within extant frameworks. Unsettled States seeks to demonstrate how the goals of minoritarian critique may be actualized without automatic recourse to a predetermined “minor” location, subject, or critical approach. Its contributors work to develop practices of reading an “American literature” in motion, identifying nodes of inquiry attuned to the rhythms of a field that is always on the move.
Author: Reinhold Aman