Fenimore Cooper ́s Literary Offences

Fenimore Cooper ́s Literary Offences
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2018-04-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3732638154

Reproduction of the original: Fenimore Cooper ́s Literary Offences by Mark Twain

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: The Floating Press
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2014-02-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1776530276

In this literary smackdown, one giant of American literature thoroughly demolishes the literary output of another. With his trademark plainspoken wit, Mark Twain presents a catalog of everything he hates about the work of James Fenimore Cooper, author of such classics as The Last of the Mohicans. Whether you're Team Twain or Team Fenimore Cooper, you're sure to be entertained by this cutting takedown.

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2018-07-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781723583339

"Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" is an 1895 essay by Mark Twain, written as a satire and criticism of the writings of James Fenimore Cooper. Drawing on examples from The Deerslayer and The Pathfinder from Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, the essay claims Cooper is guilty of verbose writing, poor plotting, glaring inconsistencies, overused clichés, cardboard characterizations, and a host of similar "offenses." The essay is characteristic of Twain's biting, derisive and highly satirical style of literary criticism, a form he also used to deride such authors as Oliver Goldsmith, George Eliot, Jane Austen, and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians

Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2011-07-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0520950607

o Includes the authoritative texts for eleven pieces written between 1868 and 1902 o Publishes, for the first time, the complete text of "Villagers of 1840-3," Mark Twain's astounding feat of memory o Features a biographical directory and notes that reflect extensive new research on Mark Twain's early life in Missouri Throughout his career, Mark Twain frequently turned for inspiration to memories of his youth in the Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri. What has come to be known as the Matter of Hannibal inspired two of his most famous books, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and provided the basis for the eleven pieces reprinted here. Most of these selections (eight of them fiction and three of them autobiographical) were never completed, and all were left unpublished. Written between 1868 and 1902, they include a diverse assortment of adventures, satires, and reminiscences in which the characters of his own childhood and of his best-loved fiction, particularly Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, come alive again. The autobiographical recollections culminate in an astounding feat of memory titled "Villagers of 1840-3" in which the author, writing for himself alone at the age of sixty-one, recalls with humor and pathos the characters of some one hundred and fifty people from his childhood. Accompanied by notes that reflect extensive new research on Mark Twain's early life in Missouri, the selections in this volume offer a revealing view of Mark Twain's varied and repeated attempts to give literary expression to the Matter of Hannibal.

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2014-03-18
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781496185334

It seems to me that it was far from right for the Professor of English Literature in Yale, the Professor of English Literature in Columbia, and Wilkie Collins to deliver opinions on Cooper's literature without having read some of it. It would have been much more decorous to keep silent and let persons talk who have read Cooper. Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer, ' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.

James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper
Author: Wayne Franklin
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 760
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0300135009

James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) invented the key forms of American fiction—the Western, the sea tale, the Revolutionary War romance. Furthermore, Cooper turned novel writing from a polite diversion into a paying career. He influenced Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Francis Parkman, and even Mark Twain—who felt the need to flagellate Cooper for his “literary offenses.” His novels mark the starting point for any history of our environmental conscience. Far from complicit in the cleansings of Native Americans that characterized the era, Cooper’s fictions traced native losses to their economic sources. Perhaps no other American writer stands in greater need of a major reevaluation than Cooper. This is the first treatment of Cooper’s life to be based on full access to his family papers. Cooper’s life, as Franklin relates it, is the story of how, in literature and countless other endeavors, Americans in his period sought to solidify their political and cultural economic independence from Britain and, as the Revolutionary generation died, stipulate what the maturing republic was to become. The first of two volumes, James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years covers Cooper’s life from his boyhood up to 1826, when, at the age of thirty-six, he left with his wife and five children for Europe.

Mark My Words

Mark My Words
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: St Martins Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1996
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780312143657

Provides a personal look at the man behind the writing through an amusing collection of his expressed opinions and thoughts on such topics as such as fellow writers, authors, editors, children's books, humor, and public speakers.