Routledge Revivals Mark Twain As A Literary Comedian 1979

Author : David E. E. Sloane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781351183444

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Routledge Revivals: Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian (1979) by David E. E. Sloane Pdf

Originally published in 1979, Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian looks at how Mark Twain addressed social issues through humour. The Southwest provided the subject for much of Twain’s writing, but the roots of his style lay principally in north-eastern humour. In the mid-1800s the northern United States underwent social changes that reflected in the writing of the literary humourists like Twain. Sloane argues that he used humour to describe conditions in the emerging middle-class urban experience and express his American vision and that Twain’s views on the human, social, and political conditions, presented through his fictional characters, elevated the use of literary humour in the American novel.

Author : David E. E. Sloane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351181549

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Routledge Revivals: The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast 1830-1890 (1983) by David E. E. Sloane Pdf

The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast brings together works by such writers as Mark Twain, P.T. Barnum, Marietta Holley, and the literary comedians Artemus Ward and Josh Billings. The northern writers chronicled a fast-moving world, dominated by government and business. In this anthology, David Sloane recovers satiric writings of the north-eastern humourists of the nineteenth century, a literary school that was formed in the crucible of the daily newspaper. Written to appeal to a newly urbanized audience experiencing the impact of the Industrial Revolution, these humorous articles, sketches and ballads responded to a rapidly changing nation still clinging to rural preconceptions but at the same time beginning to know a sharper more precarious kind of existence.

Author : David E. E. Sloane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351403153

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Mark Twain's Humor by David E. E. Sloane Pdf

Originally published in 1993. The purpose of this volume is to lay out documents which give an estimate of Mark Twain as a humourist in both historical scope and in the analysis of modern scholars. The emphasis in this collection is on how Twain developed from a contemporary humourist among many others of his generation into a major comic writer and American spokesman and, in several more recent essays by younger Twain scholars, the outcomes of that development late in his career. The essays determine how the humor takes on meaning and importance and how the humor works in a number of ways in the literary canon and even in the persona of Mark Twain.

Author : David E. E. Sloane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0824029445

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Mark Twain's Humor by David E. E. Sloane Pdf

Author : William Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317687467

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Ovid (Routledge Revivals) by William Anderson Pdf

Ovid: The Classical Heritage, first published in 1995, contains a diverse collection of reflections on a poet who has been adored and reviled in equal measure. Each essay indicates an theme or perspective which remains relevant to our self-understanding today. An enormous range of topics is investigated, in a variety of modes and styles: contemporary reaction, reception by Medieval Schoolmen, Ovid’s influence on Chaucer, and his importance for the ‘New Mythologists’.

Author : James Melville Cox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:252007440

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Mark Twain: the Fate of Humor by James Melville Cox Pdf

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:732731405

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Literary Essays by Mark Twain Pdf

Author : Ronald Carter,John McRae
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : English language
ISBN : 0415243173

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The Routledge History of Literature in English by Ronald Carter,John McRae Pdf

This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.

Author : John Bird
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108472605

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Mark Twain in Context by John Bird Pdf

Mark Twain In Context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the multifaceted life and times of one of the most celebrated American writers. It is a collection of short, lively contributions covering a wide range of topics on Twain's life and works. Twain lived during a time of great change, upheaval, progress, and challenge. He rose from obscurity to become what some have called 'the most recognizable person on the planet'. Beyond his contributions to literature, which were hugely important and influential, he was a businessman, an inventor, an advocate for social and political change, and ultimately a cultural icon. Placing his life and work in the context of his age reveals much about both Mark Twain and America in the last half of the nineteenth century, the twentieth century, and the first decades of the twenty-first century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1774 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210120353

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Books in Print Supplement by Anonim Pdf

Author : Samuel J. Umland,Rebecca A. Umland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996-10-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313031694

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The Use of Arthurian Legend in Hollywood Film by Samuel J. Umland,Rebecca A. Umland Pdf

This is the first book to examine the various uses of the Arthurian legend in Hollywood film, covering films from the 1920s to the present. The authors use five representational categories: intertextual collage (or cult film); melodrama, which focuses on the love triangle; conservative propaganda, pervasive during the Cold War; the Hollywood epic; and the postmodern quest, which commonly employs the grail portion of the legend. Arguing that filmmakers rely on the audience's rudimentary familiarity with the legend, the authors show that only certain features of the legend are activated at any particular time. This fascinating study shows us how the legend has been adapted and how through the popular medium of Hollywood films, the Arthurian legend has survived and flourished.

Author : Randall K. Knoper
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520086198

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Acting Naturally by Randall K. Knoper Pdf

"Clarifies why understanding Mark Twain's writing is essential to understanding enduring patterns and problems in American culture. Conversely, it compellingly illustrates why one does not fully understand Mark Twain's work unless one has some understanding of America's preoccupation with performance, conspicuous display, and the mental sciences."--Howard Horwitz, author of "By the Law of Nature: Form and Value in Nineteenth-Century America" "In place of the strictly literary frame of reference that has previously organized the Twain canon, Knoper productively focuses on the spectrum of theatrical attitudes whereby Twain reconfigured his culture's race and gender hierarchies into the power to construct social realities differently. This work is sure to play a significant role in the reinvention of Mark Twain for the New American Studies."--Donald E. Pease, editor of "Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon" "Knoper takes up quintessential aspects of Twain's writings, mind, and career. . . . [He] is brilliant in enunciating clearly and coherently ideas and attitudes that Twain either held confusedly or intimated almost unintentionally."--Louis J. Budd, author of "Our Mark Twain"

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1502 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015085501693

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Paperbound Books in Print by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3126 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022597087

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Subject Guide to Books in Print by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tim Gillespie
Publisher : Stenhouse Publishers
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781571108425

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Doing Literary Criticism by Tim Gillespie Pdf

One of the greatest challenges for English language arts teachers today is the call to engage students in more complex texts. Tim Gillespie, who has taught in public schools for almost four decades, has found the lenses of literary criticism a powerful tool for helping students tackle challenging literary texts. Tim breaks down the dense language of critical theory into clear, lively, and thorough explanations of many schools of critical thought---reader response, biographical, historical, psychological, archetypal, genre based, moral, philosophical, feminist, political, formalist, and postmodern. Doing Literary Criticism gives each theory its own chapter with a brief, teacher-friendly overview and a history of the approach, along with an in-depth discussion of its benefits and limitations. Each chapter also includes ideas for classroom practices and activities. Using stories from his own English classes--from alternative programs to advance placement and everything in between--Tim provides a wealth of specific classroom-tested suggestions for discussion, essay and research paper topics, recommended texts, exam questions, and more. The accompanying CD offers abbreviated overviews of each theory (designed to be used as classroom handouts, examples of student work, collections of quotes to stimulate discussion and writing, an extended history of women writers, and much more. Ultimately, Doing Literary Criticism offers teachers a rich set of materials and tools to help their students become more confident and able readers, writers, and critical thinkers.