The Mythologizing of Mark Twain /

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Readers of Mark Twain seldom doubt his genius, but defining that genius and locating its source continue to challenge students of American literature. Equally elusive is an explanation of the intriguing phenomenon of Twain as a mythic figure, both shaper and embodier of an American mythos. Perhaps n...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Beidler, Philip D. (Editor), Davis, Sara deSaussure (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Tuscaloosa, Alabama] : University of Alabama Press, 1984.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses.
Humorous stories, American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Recits humoristiques americains > Histoire et critique > Congres.
Humorous stories, American > History and criticism > Congresses.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations; Introduction / Sara deSaussure Davis; Part I: America Mythologizes Twain; Collecting the Works of Mark Twain / John C. Gerber; ""Norman Rockwell Sentimentality"": The Rockwell Illustrations for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn / Allison R. Ensor; Part II: Twain Mythologizes Twain; Autobiography as Property: Mark Twain and His Legend / Alan Gribben; Mark Twain, ""Funniest Man in the World"" / Henry Nash Smith; A ""Talent for Posturing"": The Achievement of Mark Twain's Public Personality / Louis J. Budd; Life on the Mississippi Revisited / James M. Cox.
  • Part III: Twain Mythologizes America and the UniverseMark Twain and the Myth of the West / Harold H. Kolb, Jr.; Mark Twain and the Myth of the Daring Jest / Stanley Brodwin; Notes; Contributors; Index.

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