| Description |
176 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
Twentieth century views. ; 30 |
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Twentieth century views.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Henry Nash Smith -- Mark Twain's Humor / Van Wyck Brooks -- Mark Twain : An Appreciation / Maurice Le Breton -- Roughing It / Kenneth Lynn -- The Pilot and the Passenger / Leo Marx -- Tom Sawyer / Walter Blair -- A Sound Heart and a Deformed Conscience / Henry Nash Smith -- From Black Magic-- and White-- in Huckleberry Finn / Daniel G. Hoffman -- Huck and Oliver / W. H. Auden -- A Connecticut Yankee : The Machinery of Self-Preservation / James M. Cox -- As Free as Any Cretur (sic) / Leslie Fiedler -- The Symbols of Despair / Bernard DeVoto -- The Lost America-- the Despair of Henry Adams and Mark Twain / Tony Tanner |
| Summary |
Mirrors the changing morals of the United States literary climate, from the search for the "usable past" of the 1920's, through the social realism of the '30's, to the psychological symbolism of the '40's and 50's |
| Analysis |
Humorous stories, American History and criticism |
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Twain, Mark 1835-1910 Criticism and interpretation |
| Notes |
Spectrum book |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography |
| Subject |
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
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Humorous stories, American -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Smith, Henry Nash.
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| LC no. |
63011599 |
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