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Schmitz, Neil

 
9780816611560: Of Huck and Alice: Humorous Writing in American Literature
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ISBN 10: 0816611564 ISBN 13: 9780816611560
Casa editrice: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 1983

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Of Huck and Alice was first published in 1983. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

Huck Finn and Alice B. Toklas allow Mark Twain and Gertrude Stein to slip away from the cramped and smothery intentions of proper writing. Like Krazy Kat, who transforms the hurt of Ignatz Mouse's brick into humorous bliss, Huck and Alice brilliantly misrepresent painful authority. As exemplars of humorous skepticism, Mark Twain and Gertrude Stein are at the center of this far-ranging book that begins with an examination of Jacksonian dialect humor, ends with an account of the humorous style in post-modern American fiction, and considers along the way the sweet parlance of Krazy Kat, the meaning of Harpo Marx's silence, and the iconicity of Woody Allen's face. Schmitz's analysis of the humorous style explores the texture of its language, discusses its preferred forms, and shows how the humorist frames his or her question within the text.

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Neil Schmitz is professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has written numerous essays on American literature and is a frequent contributor to the Partisan Review.

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Editore
Univ of Minnesota Pr
Data di pubblicazione
1983
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0816611564
ISBN 13 
9780816611560
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
280
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Persona responsabile
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