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Twain in his own time
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ISBN: 1587299518 9781587299513 9781587299148 1587299143 Year: 2010 Publisher: Iowa City University of Iowa Press

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The ninety-four recollections gathered in Twain in His Own Time form an unsanitized, collaborative biography designed to provide a multitude of perspectives on the iconic author. Opening with an interview with his mother that has never been reprinted, it includes memoirs by his daughters and by men who knew him when he was roughing it in Nevada and California, an interview with the pilot who taught him to navigate the Mississippi River, reminiscences from his illustrators E. M. Kemble and Dan Beard and two of his so-called adolescent angelfish, contributions from politicians and from such lite


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Twain's omissions : exploring the gaps as textual context
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ISBN: 1443864366 9781443864367 1306992435 9781306992435 1443849898 9781443849890 Year: 2013 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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Mark Twain utilized a unique literary device throughout his fiction by routinely omitting or suspending crucial information in terms of plot, character portraits, descriptive events, chronology, and other aspects from his texts. Twain often introduces characters with very few details regarding their personal histories; while, other information is withheld in terms of the narrative's chronology or not addressed at all, thus producing gaps in the narrative. For example, Twain does not provide any significant information about the mothers of two of his most well-known characters, Huckleberry Finn


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Mark Twain and money : language, capital, and culture
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ISBN: 0817390871 9780817390877 9780817319441 0817319441 Year: 2017 Publisher: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press,


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The life of Mark Twain
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ISBN: 0826274005 9780826274007 9780826221445 0826221440 Year: 2018 Publisher: Columbia, Missouri

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This book begins the first multi-volume biography of Samuel Clemens to appear in over a century. In the succeeding years, Clemens biographers have either tailored their narratives to fit the parameters of a single volume or focused on a particular period or aspect of Clemens's life, because the whole of that epic life cannot be compressed into a single volume. In The Life of Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst has chosen to write a complete biography plotted from beginning to end, from a single point of view, on an expansive canvas. With dozens of Mark Twain biographies available, what is left unsaid? On average, a hundred Clemens letters and a couple of Clemens interviews surface every year. Scharnhorst has located documents relevant to Clemens's life in Missouri, along the Mississippi River, and in the West, including some which have been presumed lost. Over three volumes, Scharnhorst elucidates the life of arguably the greatest American writer and reveals the alchemy of his gifted imagination.


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Mark Twain in context
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ISBN: 9781108617208 1108617204 9781108472609 9781108460033 1108624316 1108586988 1108472605 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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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.

The Cambridge introduction to Mark Twain
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ISBN: 9780521670753 9780521854450 0521670756 9780511610974 9780511275289 0511275285 0511271409 9780511271403 0511273029 9780511273025 0511274580 9780511274589 0511610971 0521854458 9780511273810 0511273819 1107165814 1280815507 0511568444 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Mark Twain is a central figure in nineteenth-century American literature, and his novels are among the best-known and most often studied texts in the field. This clear and incisive Introduction provides a biography of the author and situates his works in the historical and cultural context of his times. Peter Messent gives accessible but penetrating readings of the best-known writings including Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He pays particular attention to the way Twain's humour works and how it underpins his prose style. The final chapter provides up-to-date analysis of the recent critical reception of Twain's writing, and summarises the contentious and important debates about his literary and cultural position. The guide to further reading will help those who wish to extend their research and critical work on the author. This book will be of outstanding value to anyone coming to Twain for the first time.

Student companion to Mark Twain
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ISBN: 0313007098 9780313007095 9780313312199 0313312192 Year: 2001 Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press,

A Historical Guide to Mark Twain.
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ISBN: 0195132920 9780195132922 0195132939 9780195132939 0195302281 9780195302288 9786610530748 6610530742 128053074X 0199729069 9780199729067 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,

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When and why do groups target each other for extermination? How do seemingly normal people become participants in genocide? Why do some individuals come to the rescue of members of targeted groups, while others just passively observe their victimization? And how do perpetrators and bystanders later come to terms with the choices that they made? These questions have long vexed scholars and laypeople alike, and they have not decreased in urgency as we enter the twenty-first century. In this book--the first collection of essays representing social psychological perspectives on genocide and the Holocaust-- prominent social psychologists use the principles derived from contemporary research in their field to try to shed light on the behavior of the perpetrators of genocide. The primary focus of this volume is on the Holocaust, but the conclusions reached have relevance for attempts to understand any episode of mass killing. Among the topics covered are how crises and dificult life conditions might set the stage for violent intergroup conflict; why some groups are more likely than others to be selected as scapegoats; how certain cultural values and beliefs could facilitate the initiation of genocide; the roles of conformity and obedience to authority in shaping behavior; how engaging in violent behavior makes it easier to for one to aggress again; the evidence for a "genocide-prone" personality; and how perpetrators deceive themselves about what they have done. The book does not culminate in a grand theory of intergroup violence; instead, it seeks to provide the reader with new ways of making sense of the horrors of genocide. In other words, the goal of all of the contributors is to provide us with at least some of the knowledge that we will need to anticipate and prevent future such tragic episodes.

Mark Twain and medicine : "any mummery will cure"
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ISBN: 0826264484 9780826264480 0826215025 9780826215024 Year: 2003 Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press,

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