Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self - Couverture souple

Michelson, Bruce

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0870239678 ISBN 13 : 9780870239670

Editeur : University of Massachusetts Press, 1995

Synopsis

Can we rediscover the wildness in Mark Twain's humor? Can we understand how that wildness helped make him a national legend and a key figure in the expression of an American self? Bruce Michelson writes about Twain as a body of literature, as a public personality, and as a myth. He shows that many of Twain's most ambitious and memorable works, from the very beginning to the end of his career, express a drive for absolute liberation from every social, psychological, and artistic limit.

The outrageous and anarchic sides of Twain play a vital role in his art. But these traits are undervalued even by his admirers, who often favor clean shapes and steady affirmations in Twain's writing - not the dangerous comic outbreak, or the deep yearning to free the self from every definition and confinement.

Reviewing works from a wide range of Twain's writings, Michelson brings to light those wild dimensions, their literary consequences, and their cultural importance.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Massachusetts Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0870239678
• ISBN 13: 9780870239670
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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