Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor - Couverture souple

Cox, James M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0826214282 ISBN 13 : 9780826214287

Editeur : University of Missouri Press, 2002

Synopsis

In Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor, James M. Cox pursues the development of Mark Twain's humor through all the forms it took from "The Jumping Frog" to The Mysterious Stranger. Instead of seeking the seriousness behind the humor, Cox concentrates upon the humor itself as the transfiguring power that converted all the "serious" issues and emotions of Mark Twain's life and time into narratives designed to evoke helpless laughter. In those sudden moments of pleasurable helplessness, we glimpse the great heart of a writer who imagined freedom in the slave society of his youth and discovered slavery in the free country of his old age.

For this edition of Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor, the author has written a new introduction showing how and why Mark Twain remains a central figure in American life; he has also appended an essay disclosing why Adventures of Huckleberry Finn will always be a hard book to take.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

James M. Cox is Professor Emeritus of English at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Recovering Literature's Lost Ground: Essays in American Autobiography and the editor of the Penguin edition of Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi. The Mark Twain and His Circle Series, edited by Tom Quirk and John Bird

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Missouri Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0826214282
• ISBN 13: 9780826214287
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 376
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible