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"Littery man" : Mark Twain and modern authorship /
As Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens became one of America's first modern celebrities. This work examines Twain's writings to show how the writer strove to establish his authority over the course of his career and argues that Samuel Clemens' supreme fiction performance was Mark Twain.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1996.
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| Colección: | Commonwealth Center studies in American culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- INTRODUCTION: Mark Twain's Autobiographies of Authorship; ONE: "Littery Man": The Rhetoric of Authorship; I. "The Sole Form"; II. Literary Reverence: The Whittier Birthday Banquet; III. Local Differences; TWO: Consuming Desire: The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It; I. Speculating in the Market; II. Siteless Sights: The Innocents Abroad; III. The Magic of Composition: Roughing It; THREE: A "Rightly Constructed Boy's Life": The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; I. Nostalgia and Play; II. Rightly Constructing Boys; III. Fracturing: Injun Joe; FOUR: "By the Book": Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.