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Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson : Race, Conflict and Culture /

This collection seeks to place Pudd'nhead Wilson-a neglected, textually fragmented work of Mark Twain's-in the context of contemporary critical approaches to literary studies. The editors' introduction argues the virtues of using Pudd'nhead Wilson as a teaching text, a case study...

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Autres auteurs: Robinson, Forrest G. (Forrest Glen), 1940- (Éditeur intellectuel), Gillman, Susan Kay (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1990.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:This collection seeks to place Pudd'nhead Wilson-a neglected, textually fragmented work of Mark Twain's-in the context of contemporary critical approaches to literary studies. The editors' introduction argues the virtues of using Pudd'nhead Wilson as a teaching text, a case study in many of the issues presently occupying literary criticism: issues of history and the uses of history, of canon formation, of textual problematics, and finally of race, class, and gender. In a variety of ways the essays build arguments out of, not in spite of, the anomalies, inconsistencies, an.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (280 pages).
ISBN:9780822381624