Critics on Mark Twain
Author | : David B. Kesterson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David B. Kesterson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joe B. Fulton |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Criticism |
ISBN | : 1640140344 |
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.
Author | : William Dean Howells |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : |
Reminiscences of Howells' friendship with Mark Twain, followed by criticism of about a dozen of his major works (chiefly book reviews previously published in various periodicals).
Author | : Archibald Henderson |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2022-09-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Mark Twain" by Archibald Henderson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : |
Selected from Mark Twain's typescript.
Author | : Louis J. Budd |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 674 |
Release | : 1999-07-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521390248 |
The American Critical Archives is a series of reference books that provide representative selections of contemporary reviews of the main works of major American authors. Specifically, each volume contains both full reviews and excerpts from reviews that appeared in newspapers and weekly and monthly periodicals, generally within a few months of the publication of the work concerned. This 1999 book is a systematic, comprehensive gathering of the reviews (primarily in the United States and Britain) of Mark Twain's books published up until 1917. The reviews collected here are essential reading for anyone interested in Twain criticism and reception. In addition, by devoting attention to each individual work, the volume provides the broadest possible perspective on Twain's career.
Author | : Andrew Levy |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1439186960 |
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.
Author | : Philip Sheldon Foner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tracy Wuster |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2017-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0826274110 |
Mark Twain, American Humorist examines the ways that Mark Twain’s reputation developed at home and abroad in the period between 1865 and 1882, years in which he went from a regional humorist to national and international fame. In the late 1860s, Mark Twain became the exemplar of a school of humor that was thought to be uniquely American. As he moved into more respectable venues in the 1870s, especially through the promotion of William Dean Howells in the Atlantic Monthly, Mark Twain muddied the hierarchical distinctions between class-appropriate leisure and burgeoning forms of mass entertainment, between uplifting humor and debased laughter, and between the literature of high culture and the passing whim of the merely popular.
Author | : Jonathan Arac |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 1997-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0299155331 |
If racially offensive epithets are banned on CNN air time and in the pages of USA Today, Jonathan Arac asks, shouldn’t a fair hearing be given to those who protest their use in an eighth-grade classroom? Placing Mark Twain’s comic masterpiece, Huckleberry Finn, in the context of long-standing American debates about race and culture, Jonathan Arac has written a work of scholarship in the service of citizenship. Huckleberry Finn, Arac points out, is America’s most beloved book, assigned in schools more than any other work because it is considered both the “quintessential American novel” and “an important weapon against racism.” But when some parents, students, and teachers have condemned the book’s repeated use of the word “nigger,” their protests have been vehemently and often snidely countered by cultural authorities, whether in the universities or in the New York Times and the Washington Post. The paradoxical result, Arac contends, is to reinforce racist structures in our society and to make a sacred text of an important book that deserves thoughtful reading and criticism. Arac does not want to ban Huckleberry Finn, but to provide a context for fairer, fuller, and better-informed debates. Arac shows how, as the Cold War began and the Civil Rights movement took hold, the American critics Lionel Trilling, Henry Nash Smith, and Leo Marx transformed the public image of Twain’s novel from a popular “boy’s book” to a central document of American culture. Huck’s feelings of brotherhood with the slave Jim, it was implied, represented all that was right and good in American culture and democracy. Drawing on writings by novelists, literary scholars, journalists, and historians, Arac revisits the era of the novel’s setting in the 1840s, the period in the 1880s when Twain wrote and published the book, and the post–World War II era, to refute many deeply entrenched assumptions about Huckleberry Finn and its place in cultural history, both nationally and globally. Encompassing discussion of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, Archie Bunker, James Baldwin, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, and Mark Fuhrman, Arac’s book is trenchant, lucid, and timely.