Mark Twain And The Art Of The Tall Tale
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Author | : Henry B. Wonham |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0195078012 |
Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale explores a predominantly American comic strategy and its role in Mark Twain's fiction. Focusing on the writer's experiments with narrative structure, Wonham describes how Twain manipulated conventional approaches to reading and writing by engaging his audience in a series of rhetorical games - the rules of which he adapted from the conventions of the tall tale in American oral and written traditions. After surveying the rich history of yarn-spinning in America, Wonham traces Twain's appropriation of the genre through the course of his career, from The Innocents Abroad to Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Pudd'nhead Wilson. He contends that as Twain turned from short sketches to extended travelogues and quasi-fiction, he found in the tall tale a means of dramatizing his disparate comic material. Later, as Twain worked consciously to purge his writing of its anecdotal quality, the oral genre remained central to his imagination - less as a source of comic material than as a paradigmatic encounter between competing points of view, an encounter that resonates throughout the author's major fiction. Offering an original interpretation of Twain's narrative and rhetorical techniques, this absorbing and readable study will interest Twain enthusiasts and students of nineteenth-century American literature, as well as anyone interested in American humor and oral narrative traditions.
Author | : Henry B. Wonham |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1993-03-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0195360192 |
Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale is a study of a peculiar American comic strategy and its role in Mark Twain's fiction. Focusing on the writer's experiments with narrative structure, Wonham describes how Twain manipulated conventional approaches to reading and writing by engaging his audience in a series of rhetorical games--the rules of which he adapted from the conventions of tall tale in American oral and written traditions. Wonham goes on to show how Twain's appropriation of the genre developed through the course of his career, from The Innocents Abroad to Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Pudd'nhead Wilson. This eminently readable study will interest Twain enthusiasts and students of nineteenth-century American literature, as well as anyone interested in American humor and oral narrative traditions.
Author | : Henry Brunie Wonham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : American wit and humor |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Harold Bloom |
Publisher | : Infobase Learning |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Criticism |
ISBN | : 1438139926 |
Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of Mark Twain.
Author | : James Edward Caron |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 696 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : American wit and humor |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mark Twain |
Publisher | : Running Press Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780762405497 |
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Author | : Peter Messent |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2001-08-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780812236224 |
"A delightfully informed path through the complexities of composition, publishing history, and the textual discontinuities that characterize so many of Twain's stories."—Journal of American Studies
Author | : R. Kent Rasmussen |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 1159 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : 1438108524 |
Praise for the previous edition:RASD/ALA "Outstanding Reference Source, 1996""'Essential' is the word for it!
Author | : Jeffrey Alan Melton |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2002-06-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0817311602 |
Grounding this study in tourist theory, Melton explores how, in five travel books, Twain captures the birth and growth of a new creature who would go on to change the map of the world: the American tourist."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Peter Messent |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2016-01-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349252719 |
This book provides an overview of Mark Twain's work and a close critical analysis of the forms and themes of his major texts. The author uses recent cultural and literary theory to re-examine Twain's travel writing and fiction, writing in a jargon-free and accessible manner. He focuses on Twain's humour and his attitudes to such subjects as boyhood, nationality, race relations, technology, and capitalist expansion, and shows how his work reflects anxieties both about changes in the social and industrial order in post Civil-War America and the status of the individual within it.