Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor - Brossura

Cox, James M.

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ISBN 10: 0826214282 ISBN 13: 9780826214287

Casa editrice: Univ of Missouri Pr, 2002

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore:

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

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Book by Cox James

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• Editore: Univ of Missouri Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0826214282
• ISBN 13: 9780826214287
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 376