Fetching the Old Southwest : humorous writing from Longstreet to Twain /

"For more than a quarter-century, despite the admirable excavations that have unearthed such humorists as John Gorman Barr and Marcus Lafayette, the most significant of the humorists from the Old Southwest have remained the same: Crockett, Longstreet, Thompson, Baldwin, Thorpe, Hooper, Robb, Ha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Justus, James H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2004.
Temas:
Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, > 1790-1870 > Criticism and interpretation.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Criticism and interpretation.
Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, > 1790-1870 > Critique et interprétation.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Critique et interprétation.
Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, > 1790-1870
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910
Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin.
Twain, Mark.
1800-1899
American wit and humor > Southwest, Old > History and criticism.
Humorous stories, American > Southwest, Old > History and criticism.
American wit and humor > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > Southwest, Old > History and criticism.
Popular culture > Southwest, Old.
American literature > Southwestern States > History and criticism.
Humour américain > États-Unis (Vieux Sud-Ouest) > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > États-Unis (Sud-Ouest) > Histoire et critique.
Culture populaire > États-Unis (Vieux Sud-Ouest)
Humour américain > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Récits humoristiques américains > États-Unis (Vieux Sud-Ouest) > Histoire et critique.
États-Unis (Vieux Sud-Ouest) dans la littérature.
COOKING > Regional & Ethnic > International.
American literature
American wit and humor
Humorous stories, American
Intellectual life
Literature
Popular culture
Humoristische Literatur
Southwest, Old > Intellectual life.
Southwest, Old > In literature.
États-Unis (Vieux Sud-Ouest) > Vie intellectuelle.
États-Unis (Vieux Sud-Ouest) > Dans la littérature.
United States > Southwestern States
United States > Old Southwest
USA > Südweststaaten
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • pt. 1. Mythmakers and revisionists: The myth of the ruined homeland. Southwest humor and the cordon sanitaire
  • pt. 2. The world the humorists found: Migrating for fun and profit. Creation states and how they are used up. Fetching Arkansas. Southwest humor and the other. Scenes in course and field. River culture
  • pt. 3. The world the humorists made: Authorship and amateurism. The languages of Southwest humor. Narrators and storytellers. Droll specimens and comfortable types. The yokel as social critic. Making game with Simon Suggs. The world according to Sut
  • Afterword.

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