Centenary Reflections On Mark Twains No 44 The Mysterious Stranger

Author : Joseph Csicsila
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826271863
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Centenary Reflections on Mark Twain's No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger written by Joseph Csicsila and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first book on No. 44 in thirty years, thirteen especially commissioned essays by some of today's most accomplished Twain scholars cover an array of topics, from domesticity and transnationalism to race and religion, and reflect a variety of scholarly and theoretical approaches to the work. This far-reaching collection considers the status of No. 44 within Twain's oeuvre as they offer cogent insights into such broad topics as cross-culturalism, pain and redemption, philosophical paradox, and comparative studies of the "Mysterious Stranger" manuscripts. All of these essays attest to the importance of this late work in Twain's canon, whether considering how Twain's efforts at truth-telling are premeditated and shaped by his own experiences, tracing the biblical and religious influences that resonate in No. 44, or exploring the text's psychological dimensions. Several address its importance as a culminating work in which Twain's seemingly disjointed story lines coalesce in meaningful, albeit not always satisfactory, ways. An afterword by Alan Gribben traces the critical history of the "Mysterious Stranger" manuscripts and the contributions of previous critics. A wide-ranging critical introduction and a comprehensive bibliography on the last century of scholarship bracket the contributions. Close inspection of this multidimensional novel shows how Twain evolved as a self-conscious thinker and humorist--and that he was a more conscious artist throughout his career than has been previously thought. Centenary Reflections deepens our understanding of one of Twain's most misunderstood texts, confirming that the author of No. 44 was a pursuer of an elusive truth that was often as mysterious a stranger as Twain himself.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775419231
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mysterious Stranger written by Mark Twain and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last extended piece of fiction from beloved American fiction writer and humorist Mark Twain, Satan proudly surveys fin-de-siecle civilization and marvels at its hypocrisies. Twain was heavily invested in this story and rewrote it multiple times over the course of several decades. Although critics regard it as a serious work of satire, it is full of the side-splitting humor for which Twain's writing is known.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520949579
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only authoritative text of this late novel. It reproduces the manuscript which Mark Twain wrote last, and the only one he finished or called the "The Mysterious Stranger." Albert Bigelow Paine's edition of the same name has been shown to be a textual fraud.

Author : Douglas Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501329545
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Introspective Art of Mark Twain written by Douglas Anderson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A new reading of the major themes and concerns of Mark Twain's life and work, tracing the development of his imagination from his earliest works in 1865 to his writings in the early twentieth century"--

Author : Peter Messent
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199736804
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain and Male Friendship written by Peter Messent and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores male friendship in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through Mark Twain and the relationships he had with William Dean Howells, Joseph Twichell, and Henry H. Rogers.

Author : Susan K. Harris
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817359672
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain, the World, and Me written by Susan K. Harris and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American literary studies Susan K. Harris retraced the journey of the literary icon as he made his way around the British Empire on his infamous 1895-1896 lecture tour. Part biography, part literary criticism, and part travel memoir, Harris' study offers a unique take on one of America's most widely studied writers while attempting to situate Mark Twain's social commentary within a contemporary worldview. As Harris makes her way through Australia, India, and South Africa-seeing for herself the people and places Twain experienced-she also undertakes a journey of self-exploration and what her relationship with Mark Twain means. After his disastrous investment in the Paige Compositor typesetting machine, Mark Twain found himself bankrupt. Determined to repay his debts, he undertook a thirteen-month lecture tour around the British Empire-visiting Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, India, Mauritius, and South Africa. After the tour, Twain published Following the Equator, a travelogue in which he recorded his observations and social commentary on the places he visited. Although Twain was generally known to criticize racism, bigotry, and imperialism, his financial situation meant he was willing to write to his audience's expectations in order to sell more books. This lead to the imbuement of Following the Equator with the racial and cultural biases of the era. Following the Equator went on to be a success, virtually propelling him out of debt, but now contemporary scholars and readers are left to make sense of Twain's often inconsistent observations, to figure out how to situate Twain's legacy in a new era. 'Mark Twain, the World, and Me' aims to do just that. More than 100 years after Twain's journey, Susan K. Harris follows him through Australia, India, and South America, tracing the themes and issues present in Following the Equator, addressing them head on, and using them as an occasion for comparing his era to our own. Her account covers a variety of topics, such as the conundrum that Hinduism presented to Protestant Americans of the 19th century, the clash of civilizations between Australian Aborigines and white settlers, the environmental devastation brought on by settler eradication policies, and more"--

Author : LAWRENCE I. BERKOVE
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587299372
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heretical Fictions written by LAWRENCE I. BERKOVE and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heretical Fictions is the first full-length study to assess the importance of Twain’s heretical Calvinism as the foundation of his major works, bringing to light important thematic ties that connect the author’s early work to his high period and from there to his late work. Berkove and Csicsila set forth the main elements of Twain’s “countertheological” interpretation of Calvinism and analyze in detail the way it shapes five of his major books—Roughing It, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger—as well as some of his major short stories. The result is a ground-breaking and unconventional portrait of a seminal figure in American letters.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mysterious Stranger written by Mark Twain and published by Cosimo Classics. This book was released on 1916 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twain's nihilistic tale, set in the 1590's, about an Austrian boy who encounters an angel called Satan who reveals to the boy the true nature of existence: 'nothing exists but you'.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works of Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joe B. Fulton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1640140344
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain Under Fire written by Joe B. Fulton and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2018 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracks the genesis and evolution of Twain's reputation as a writer, revealing how and why the writer has been under fire since the advent of his career.