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  1. Literature in our Lives
    Talking about texts from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman
    Author: Jacobs, Richard
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York

    This book recreates in written form seventeen of the most popular, frankly personal and engaging lectures on literature given by the award-winning teacher Richard Jacobs, who has been working with students for over forty years. This is a book written... more

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    This book recreates in written form seventeen of the most popular, frankly personal and engaging lectures on literature given by the award-winning teacher Richard Jacobs, who has been working with students for over forty years. This is a book written for students, whether starting their studies or more experienced, and also for all lovers of literature. At its heart is the conviction that reading, thinking about, and writing or talking about literature involves us all personally: texts talk to us intimately and urgently, inviting us to talk back, intervening in and changing our lives. These lectures discuss, in an open but richly informed way, a wide range of texts that are regularly studied and enjoyed. They model what it means to be excited about reading and studying literature, and how the study of literature can be life-changing - perhaps even with the effect of changing the lives of readers of this eloquent and remarkable book.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780367189341; 9780367189310
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    9780367189341
    Subjects: Rezeption; Lektüre; Literatur; Englisch
    Other subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; A Tale of Two Cities; american literature; Beckett; Bronte; Charles Dickens; Chopin; Colonialism; C.S. Lewis; Dickenson; Dorian Gray; desire; Emma; early modern literature; Foucault; Freud; family values; Gaskell; George Eliot; Gilman; Great Expectations; gender; Hamlet; Hardy; Hawthorne; Henry James; In Search of Lost Time; Jacques Lacan; Jane Austen; Jane Eyre; Keats; King Lear; loss; Milton; Myth of the Fall; modernism; myth; Nightingale; Paradise Lost; Peter Greenway; Prospero’s Books; Proust; Psycho-Sexuality; Pullman; queer theory; Race; Republicanism; realism; Shakespeare; Sherlock Holmes; sexuality; The Awakening; The Fallen Woman; The Tempest; Tolstoy; To Autumn; Twelfth Night; victorian literature; Waiting for Godot; Woman in White; Wuthering Heights; women; 19th century literature
    Scope: x, 199 Seiten, 345 grams.
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    Introduction; The myth of the Fall and its impact: Pullman, Lewis and others; Claribel’s story: a few thoughts on gender, race and colonialism in The Tempest; Wuthering Heights: myth and the wounds of loss; Beckett’s Waiting for Godot: transforming lives; Great Expectations: intertextualities, endings and life after plot; Emily Dickinson: ‘And then the windows failed’; Emma: rhetoric, irony and the reader’s assault course; Dorian Gray: ‘queering’ the text; The Fallen Woman: Emma Bovary and (many) others; Two transgressive American women: Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Hamlet / Lear: realism / modernism; John Keats: three (or is it two?) poems and thoughts on ‘late style’; Republicanism, regicide and ‘The Musgrave Ritual’; Jean Rhys: her texts from the 1930s; Twelfth Night: Dream-Gift; Please read Proust; Paradise Lost: radical politics, gender and education ;
  2. Literature in our Lives
    Talking about texts from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman
    Author: Jacobs, Richard
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York

    This book recreates in written form seventeen of the most popular, frankly personal and engaging lectures on literature given by the award-winning teacher Richard Jacobs, who has been working with students for over forty years. This is a book written... more

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    This book recreates in written form seventeen of the most popular, frankly personal and engaging lectures on literature given by the award-winning teacher Richard Jacobs, who has been working with students for over forty years. This is a book written for students, whether starting their studies or more experienced, and also for all lovers of literature. At its heart is the conviction that reading, thinking about, and writing or talking about literature involves us all personally: texts talk to us intimately and urgently, inviting us to talk back, intervening in and changing our lives. These lectures discuss, in an open but richly informed way, a wide range of texts that are regularly studied and enjoyed. They model what it means to be excited about reading and studying literature, and how the study of literature can be life-changing - perhaps even with the effect of changing the lives of readers of this eloquent and remarkable book

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780367189341; 9780367189310
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    9780367189341
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; A Tale of Two Cities; american literature; Beckett; Bronte; Charles Dickens; Chopin; Colonialism; C.S. Lewis; Dickenson; Dorian Gray; desire; Emma; early modern literature; Foucault; Freud; family values; Gaskell; George Eliot; Gilman; Great Expectations; gender; Hamlet; Hardy; Hawthorne; Henry James; In Search of Lost Time; Jacques Lacan; Jane Austen; Jane Eyre; Keats; King Lear; loss; Milton; Myth of the Fall; modernism; myth; Nightingale; Paradise Lost; Peter Greenway; Prospero’s Books; Proust; Psycho-Sexuality; Pullman; queer theory; Race; Republicanism; realism; Shakespeare; Sherlock Holmes; sexuality; The Awakening; The Fallen Woman; The Tempest; Tolstoy; To Autumn; Twelfth Night; victorian literature; Waiting for Godot; Woman in White; Wuthering Heights; women; 19th century literature
    Scope: x, 199 Seiten, 345 grams
    Notes:

    Introduction; The myth of the Fall and its impact: Pullman, Lewis and others; Claribel’s story: a few thoughts on gender, race and colonialism in The Tempest; Wuthering Heights: myth and the wounds of loss; Beckett’s Waiting for Godot: transforming lives; Great Expectations: intertextualities, endings and life after plot; Emily Dickinson: ‘And then the windows failed’; Emma: rhetoric, irony and the reader’s assault course; Dorian Gray: ‘queering’ the text; The Fallen Woman: Emma Bovary and (many) others; Two transgressive American women: Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Hamlet / Lear: realism / modernism; John Keats: three (or is it two?) poems and thoughts on ‘late style’; Republicanism, regicide and ‘The Musgrave Ritual’; Jean Rhys: her texts from the 1930s; Twelfth Night: Dream-Gift; Please read Proust; Paradise Lost: radical politics, gender and education ;
  3. Corps-texte :
    pour une théorie de la lecture empathique : Cooper, Danielewski, Frey, Palahniuk /
    Author: Patoine, Pierre-Louis,
    Published: 2015.; ©2015
    Publisher:  ENS Éditions,, Lyon, [France] :

    Un livre peut-il faire mal  ? Plongé dans un texte littéraire, le lecteur fait parfois l’expérience de sensations tactiles, douloureuses, musculaires, viscérales. C’est la « lecture empathique ». Mais comment expliquer ce passage du sens au... more

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    Un livre peut-il faire mal  ? Plongé dans un texte littéraire, le lecteur fait parfois l’expérience de sensations tactiles, douloureuses, musculaires, viscérales. C’est la « lecture empathique ». Mais comment expliquer ce passage du sens au sensori-moteur  ? Neuropsychologie, phénoménologie, études culturelles, théories de la fiction et de la littérature sont ici convoquées pour répondre à cette question intrigante, au fil d’un parcours révélant les œuvres de quatre auteurs qui ont marqué la littérature américaine des années 1990 et 2000 (Dennis Cooper, James Frey, Chuck Palahniuk et Mark Z. Danielewski). En mettant l’accent sur l’expérience de la littérature plutôt que sur son interprétation, le modèle développé dans cet ouvrage permet de repenser la question de la valeur artistique en termes de puissance sensorielle et d’immersion, dessinant le projet d’une lecture plus corporelle, d’une lecture empathique. Illustration de couverture : autoportrait de David Nebreda © David Nebreda - 2004 - Éditions Léo Scheer Can we feel the pain of a character in a novel? Immersed in a fiction, a reader may experience various somatosensory feelings. Such an experience of “empathic reading” is hardly conceivable through theories of interpretation that ignore the role of the biological body. On the contrary, an approach embracing embodied cognition, that weaves together neurology and literature, phenomenology and theories of fiction to discuss the era-defining, turn-of-the-millenium works of American writers Dennis Cooper, James Frey, Chuck Palahniuk and Mark Z. Danielewski, reveals the role of empathy in literary reading. This approach not only elucidates an intriguing phenomenon, it also redefines artistic value in terms of sensory impact and fictional immersion, thus promoting a richly embodied mode of reading, an empathic reading.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: French
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 2-84788-665-6
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    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: Collection Signes,
    Subjects: American literature; American literature; American literature; Empathy in literature.; Senses and sensation in literature.
    Other subjects: empathy; embodied cognition; reading; neurology and literature; american literature
    Scope: 1 online resource (283 p.)
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    Description based upon print version of record.

    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    La distance esthétique, résistance et abandon à l'image
  4. Corps-texte :
    pour une théorie de la lecture empathique : Cooper, Danielewski, Frey, Palahniuk /
    Author: Patoine, Pierre-Louis,
    Published: 2015.; ©2015
    Publisher:  ENS Éditions,, Lyon, [France] :

    Un livre peut-il faire mal  ? Plongé dans un texte littéraire, le lecteur fait parfois l’expérience de sensations tactiles, douloureuses, musculaires, viscérales. C’est la « lecture empathique ». Mais comment expliquer ce passage du sens au... more

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    Un livre peut-il faire mal  ? Plongé dans un texte littéraire, le lecteur fait parfois l’expérience de sensations tactiles, douloureuses, musculaires, viscérales. C’est la « lecture empathique ». Mais comment expliquer ce passage du sens au sensori-moteur  ? Neuropsychologie, phénoménologie, études culturelles, théories de la fiction et de la littérature sont ici convoquées pour répondre à cette question intrigante, au fil d’un parcours révélant les œuvres de quatre auteurs qui ont marqué la littérature américaine des années 1990 et 2000 (Dennis Cooper, James Frey, Chuck Palahniuk et Mark Z. Danielewski). En mettant l’accent sur l’expérience de la littérature plutôt que sur son interprétation, le modèle développé dans cet ouvrage permet de repenser la question de la valeur artistique en termes de puissance sensorielle et d’immersion, dessinant le projet d’une lecture plus corporelle, d’une lecture empathique. Illustration de couverture : autoportrait de David Nebreda © David Nebreda - 2004 - Éditions Léo Scheer Can we feel the pain of a character in a novel? Immersed in a fiction, a reader may experience various somatosensory feelings. Such an experience of “empathic reading” is hardly conceivable through theories of interpretation that ignore the role of the biological body. On the contrary, an approach embracing embodied cognition, that weaves together neurology and literature, phenomenology and theories of fiction to discuss the era-defining, turn-of-the-millenium works of American writers Dennis Cooper, James Frey, Chuck Palahniuk and Mark Z. Danielewski, reveals the role of empathy in literary reading. This approach not only elucidates an intriguing phenomenon, it also redefines artistic value in terms of sensory impact and fictional immersion, thus promoting a richly embodied mode of reading, an empathic reading.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: French
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 2-84788-665-6
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    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: Collection Signes,
    Subjects: American literature; American literature; American literature; Empathy in literature.; Senses and sensation in literature.
    Other subjects: empathy; embodied cognition; reading; neurology and literature; american literature
    Scope: 1 online resource (283 p.)
    Notes:

    Description based upon print version of record.

    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    La distance esthétique, résistance et abandon à l'image
  5. Henry James's Europe : Heritage and Transfer
    Contributor: Tredy, Dennis (Publisher); Harding, Adrian (Publisher); Duperray, Annick (Publisher)
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequently wrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. The plight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophistication became a regular theme in his... more

     

    As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequently wrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. The plight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophistication became a regular theme in his fiction. This collection of twenty-four papers from some of the world’s leading James scholars offers a comprehensive picture of the author’s cross-cultural aesthetics. It provides detailed analyses of James’s perception of Europe—of its people and places, its history and culture, its artists and thinkers, its aesthetics and its ethics—which ultimately lead to a profound reevaluation of his writing.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Tredy, Dennis (Publisher); Harding, Adrian (Publisher); Duperray, Annick (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Biography: literary; Literary studies: general
    Other subjects: portrait of a lady; european reception of henry james; european society of jamesian studies; the american; henry james; americans in europe; english literature; novel; authorship; the ambassadors; what maisie knew; american literature; France; Honoré de Balzac; Paris
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (316 p.)
  6. World Beats
    Author: Fazzino, Jimmy
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Dartmouth College Press, Hanover

    This fascinating book explores Beat Generation writing from a transnational perspective, using the concept of worlding to place Beat literature in conversation with a far-reaching network of cultural and political formations. Countering the charge... more

     

    This fascinating book explores Beat Generation writing from a transnational perspective, using the concept of worlding to place Beat literature in conversation with a far-reaching network of cultural and political formations. Countering the charge that the Beats abroad were at best naïve tourists seeking exoticism for exoticism's sake, World Beats finds that these writers propelled a highly politicized agenda that sought to use the tools of the earlier avant-garde to undermine Cold War and postcolonial ideologies and offer a new vision of engaged literature. With fresh interpretations of central Beat authors Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs - as well as usually marginalized writers like Philip Lamantia, Ted Joans, and Brion Gysin - World Beats moves beyond national, continental, or hemispheric frames to show that embedded within Beat writing is an essential universality that brought America to the world and the world to American literature.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781611689297
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    Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -
    Other subjects: Literature and transnationalism; beat generation; 20th century literature; history and criticism; american literature; Allen Ginsberg; Ayahuasca; Jack Kerouac; Surrealism; William S. Burroughs
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (280 p.)
  7. Writing America
    Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee (A Reader's Companion)
    Author: Fishkin, Shelley Fisher
    Published: [2015]; © 2015
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

    Winner of the John S. Tuckey 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award for Mark Twain Scholarship from The Center for Mark Twain Studies American novelist E.L. Doctorow once observed that literature "endows places with meaning." Yet, as this wide-ranging new... more

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    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Winner of the John S. Tuckey 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award for Mark Twain Scholarship from The Center for Mark Twain Studies American novelist E.L. Doctorow once observed that literature "endows places with meaning." Yet, as this wide-ranging new book vividly illustrates, understanding the places that shaped American writers’ lives and their art can provide deep insight into what makes their literature truly meaningful. Published on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Historic Preservation Act, Writing America is a unique, passionate, and eclectic series of meditations on literature and history, covering over 150 important National Register historic sites, all pivotal to the stories that make up America, from chapels to battlefields; from plantations to immigration stations; and from theaters to internment camps. The book considers not only the traditional sites for literary tourism, such as Mark Twain’s sumptuous Connecticut home and the peaceful woods surrounding Walden Pond, but also locations that highlight the diversity of American literature, from the New York tenements that spawned Abraham Cahan’s fiction to the Texas pump house that irrigated the fields in which the farm workers central to Gloria Anzaldúa’s poetry picked produce. Rather than just providing a cursory overview of these authors’ achievements, acclaimed literary scholar and cultural historian Shelley Fisher Fishkin offers a deep and personal reflection on how key sites bore witness to the struggles of American writers and inspired their dreams. She probes the global impact of American writers’ innovative art and also examines the distinctive contributions to American culture by American writers who wrote in languages other than English, including Yiddish, Chinese, and Spanish. Only a scholar with as wide-ranging interests as Shelley Fisher Fishkin would dare to bring together in one book writers as diverse as Gloria Anzaldúa, Nicholas Black Elk, David Bradley, Abraham Cahan, S. Alice Callahan, Raymond Chandler, Frank Chin, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Countee Cullen, Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jessie Fauset, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Allen Ginsberg, Jovita González, Rolando Hinojosa, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Lawson Fusao Inada, James Weldon Johnson, Erica Jong, Maxine Hong Kingston, Irena Klepfisz, Nella Larsen, Emma Lazarus, Sinclair Lewis, Genny Lim, Claude McKay, Herman Melville, N. Scott Momaday, William Northup, John Okada, Miné Okubo, Simon Ortiz, Américo Paredes, John P.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780813576008
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    Subjects: american author; american history; american literature; american studies; english; literary history; literary landmark; literary studies; literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; American literature; American literature; American literature; Authors, American; Literary landmarks; Literarische Stätte
    Scope: 1 online resource, 62 photographs
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  8. A Common Strangeness
    Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature
    Author: Edmond, Jacob
    Published: [2012]; © 2012
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    Why is our world still understood through binary oppositions—East and West, local and global, common and strange—that ought to have crumbled with the Berlin Wall? What might literary responses to the events that ushered in our era of globalization... more

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    Why is our world still understood through binary oppositions—East and West, local and global, common and strange—that ought to have crumbled with the Berlin Wall? What might literary responses to the events that ushered in our era of globalization tell us about the rhetorical and historical underpinnings of these dichotomies?In A Common Strangeness, Jacob Edmond exemplifies a new, multilingual and multilateral approach to literary and cultural studies. He begins with the entrance of China into multinational capitalism and the appearance of the Parisian flâneur in the writings of a Chinese poet exiled in Auckland, New Zealand. Moving among poetic examples in Russian, Chinese, and English, he then traces a series of encounters shaped by economic and geopolitical events from the Cultural Revolution, perestroika, and the June 4 massacre to the collapse of the Soviet Union, September 11, and the invasion of Iraq. In these encounters, Edmond tracks a shared concern with strangeness through which poets contested old binary oppositions as they reemerged in new, post-Cold War forms

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780823242627
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    Series: Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
    Subjects: Cold War; american culture; american literature; avant-gard literature; chinese culture; chinese literature; comparative literature; contemporary literature; cultural theory; globalization; literary theory; modernist literature; poetry; russian culture; russian literature; world literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry; Comparative literature; Literature and globalization; Poetry, Modern
    Scope: 1 online resource (284 pages)
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    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
  9. A Marsh Island
    Author: Jewett, Sarah Orne
    Published: [2023]; ©2023
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: McLaughlin, Don James (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781512824278
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    Series: Q19: The Queer American Nineteenth Century
    Subjects: Artists; Salt marshes; LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    Other subjects: Annie Fields; Boston marriage; LGBTQ literature; Maine; Massachusetts; New England; Queer kinship; Salt Marsh; Sarah Orne Jewett; american literature; artist’s studio; autobiographical autobiography; city slicker; ecocriticism; gender; ghost story; history of sexuality; landscape; local color; neglected work; nineteenth century; novel; outsider; queer ecology; regionalism; rural; women writers
    Scope: 1 online resource (216 p.), 8 halftones
  10. Writing America
    Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee (A Reader's Companion)
    Author: Fishkin, Shelley Fisher
    Published: [2015]; © 2015
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

    Winner of the John S. Tuckey 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award for Mark Twain Scholarship from The Center for Mark Twain Studies American novelist E.L. Doctorow once observed that literature "endows places with meaning." Yet, as this wide-ranging new... more

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    Winner of the John S. Tuckey 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award for Mark Twain Scholarship from The Center for Mark Twain Studies American novelist E.L. Doctorow once observed that literature "endows places with meaning." Yet, as this wide-ranging new book vividly illustrates, understanding the places that shaped American writers’ lives and their art can provide deep insight into what makes their literature truly meaningful. Published on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Historic Preservation Act, Writing America is a unique, passionate, and eclectic series of meditations on literature and history, covering over 150 important National Register historic sites, all pivotal to the stories that make up America, from chapels to battlefields; from plantations to immigration stations; and from theaters to internment camps. The book considers not only the traditional sites for literary tourism, such as Mark Twain’s sumptuous Connecticut home and the peaceful woods surrounding Walden Pond, but also locations that highlight the diversity of American literature, from the New York tenements that spawned Abraham Cahan’s fiction to the Texas pump house that irrigated the fields in which the farm workers central to Gloria Anzaldúa’s poetry picked produce. Rather than just providing a cursory overview of these authors’ achievements, acclaimed literary scholar and cultural historian Shelley Fisher Fishkin offers a deep and personal reflection on how key sites bore witness to the struggles of American writers and inspired their dreams. She probes the global impact of American writers’ innovative art and also examines the distinctive contributions to American culture by American writers who wrote in languages other than English, including Yiddish, Chinese, and Spanish. Only a scholar with as wide-ranging interests as Shelley Fisher Fishkin would dare to bring together in one book writers as diverse as Gloria Anzaldúa, Nicholas Black Elk, David Bradley, Abraham Cahan, S. Alice Callahan, Raymond Chandler, Frank Chin, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Countee Cullen, Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jessie Fauset, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Allen Ginsberg, Jovita González, Rolando Hinojosa, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Lawson Fusao Inada, James Weldon Johnson, Erica Jong, Maxine Hong Kingston, Irena Klepfisz, Nella Larsen, Emma Lazarus, Sinclair Lewis, Genny Lim, Claude McKay, Herman Melville, N. Scott Momaday, William Northup, John Okada, Miné Okubo, Simon Ortiz, Américo Paredes, John P.

     
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  11. A Common Strangeness
    Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature
    Author: Edmond, Jacob
    Published: [2012]; © 2012
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

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    Why is our world still understood through binary oppositions—East and West, local and global, common and strange—that ought to have crumbled with the Berlin Wall? What might literary responses to the events that ushered in our era of globalization tell us about the rhetorical and historical underpinnings of these dichotomies?In A Common Strangeness, Jacob Edmond exemplifies a new, multilingual and multilateral approach to literary and cultural studies. He begins with the entrance of China into multinational capitalism and the appearance of the Parisian flâneur in the writings of a Chinese poet exiled in Auckland, New Zealand. Moving among poetic examples in Russian, Chinese, and English, he then traces a series of encounters shaped by economic and geopolitical events from the Cultural Revolution, perestroika, and the June 4 massacre to the collapse of the Soviet Union, September 11, and the invasion of Iraq. In these encounters, Edmond tracks a shared concern with strangeness through which poets contested old binary oppositions as they reemerged in new, post-Cold War forms

     
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    Subjects: Cold War; american culture; american literature; avant-gard literature; chinese culture; chinese literature; comparative literature; contemporary literature; cultural theory; globalization; literary theory; modernist literature; poetry; russian culture; russian literature; world literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry; Comparative literature; Literature and globalization; Poetry, Modern
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  12. Richard Wright and Transnationalism
    New Dimensions to Modern American Expatriate Literature
    Author: Alzoubi, Mamoun F. I.
    Published: [2018]
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    Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    Subjects: Transnationalism in literature; Transnationalism in literature; Electronic books; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature ; bisacsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General ; bisacsh; african literature ; bisacsh; american literature ; bisacsh; anti-imperial ; bisacsh; anti-racist ; bisacsh; asian literature ; bisacsh; Bandung Conference ; bisacsh; Black Power: A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos ; bisacsh; black boy ; bisacsh; black power ; bisacsh; colonization ; bisacsh; culture ; bisacsh; Enlightenment ; bisacsh; first world ; bisacsh; Ghana ; bisacsh; Gold Coast ; bisacsh; ghetto ; bisacsh; harbingers ; bisacsh; identity ; bisacsh; native son ; bisacsh; oppressors ; bisacsh; Pagan Spain ; bisacsh; politics ; bisacsh; postcolonial literature ; bisacsh; postcolonial studies ; bisacsh; power ; bisacsh; race ; bisacsh; racism ; bisacsh; Spain ; bisacsh; Spanish Literature ; bisacsh; the color curtain ; bisacsh; the man who was almost a man ; bisacsh; the outsider ; bisacsh; third world ; bisacsh; uncle tom's children ; bisacsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General; african literature; american literature; anti-imperial; anti-racist; asian literature; Bandung Conference; Black Power: A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos; black boy; black power; colonization; culture; Enlightenment; first world; Ghana; Gold Coast; ghetto; harbingers; identity; native son; oppressors; Pagan Spain; politics; postcolonial literature; postcolonial studies; power; race; racism; Spain; Spanish Literature; the color curtain; the man who was almost a man; the outsider; third world; uncle tom's children
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  13. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer Abroad, and Tom Sawyer, Detective
    Author: Twain, Mark
    Published: [1980]; ©1980
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    This is a small sampling of Mark Twain's life-long fulminations against the editors, printers, and proofreaders who, subtly or grossly, altered his work and shrouded his intentions as they transmitted his writing from manuscript to type. Through... more

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    This is a small sampling of Mark Twain's life-long fulminations against the editors, printers, and proofreaders who, subtly or grossly, altered his work and shrouded his intentions as they transmitted his writing from manuscript to type. Through unauthorized changes and inadvertent errors, Mark Twain's first publishers brought out texts full of thousands of errors in form and content. Later publishers then based their reprints on these corrupt editions and added errors of their own. It is the aim of the Iowa-California edition to strip away this accretion of error and present texts faithful to the author's intention. By comparing all the life-time version of Mark Twain's works, the editors are able to isolate the author's revisions from the printers and publishers' changes. The record of this comparison supplies not only the evidence for editorial decisions, but also the history of the author's efforts to shape his work. In addition, these volumes include previously uncollected work, work that has long been out of print, and such unpublished writing as related drafts, working notes, and marginalia. The texts are established at the Center for Textual Studies at the University of Iowa or at the Mark Twain Papers in The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. The costs for editorial work have been met by generous support from the Editing Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency, and other institutional and private donors. The edition is published by the University of California Press with financial assistance from the Graduate College at the University of Iowa. All volumes are submitted to the Center for Editions of american Authors, or to its successor, the Committee for Scholarly Editions, for examination and approval

     
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  14. Early Tales and Sketches
    Volume 1, Early Tales and Sketches, Volume 1 ; 1851-1864
    Author: Twain, Mark
    Published: [1979]; ©1980
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    This collection brings together for the first time more than 360 of Mark Twain's short works written between 1851, the year of his first extant sketch, and 1871, when he renounced his ties with the Buffalo Express and the Galaxy, resolving to ";write... more

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    This collection brings together for the first time more than 360 of Mark Twain's short works written between 1851, the year of his first extant sketch, and 1871, when he renounced his ties with the Buffalo Express and the Galaxy, resolving to ";write but little for periodicals hereafter."; In October 1871 Clemens and his family moved to Hartford, where they would live until 1891. No longer a journalist, he was about to complete his second full-length book, Roughing It. The literary apprenticeship that he had begun twenty years before in the print shops of Hannibal, and pursued in the newspaper offices of Virginia City, San Francisco, and Buffalo, had at last come to a close. The selections included in these volumes represent a generous sampling from Mark Twain's most imaginative journalism, a few set speeches, a few poems, and hundreds of tales and sketches recovered from more than fifty newspapers and journals, as well as two dozen unpublished items of various description—the main body of what can now be found of his early literary and subliterary work, though by no means everything written during those twenty years of experimentation. The selections are ordered chronologically and therefore provide a nearly continuous record of the author's literary activity from his earliest juvenilia up through the mature work that he published in the Galaxy, the Buffalo Express, and many other journals

     
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  15. Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I
    (1855-1873)
    Author: Twain, Mark
    Published: [1976]; ©1976
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    In the summer of 1855, when the nineteen-year-old Sam Clements traveled from Saint Louis to Hannibal, Paris, and Florida, Missouri, and then to Keokuk, Iowa, he carried with him a notebook in which he entered French lessons, phrenological... more

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    In the summer of 1855, when the nineteen-year-old Sam Clements traveled from Saint Louis to Hannibal, Paris, and Florida, Missouri, and then to Keokuk, Iowa, he carried with him a notebook in which he entered French lessons, phrenological information, miscellaneous observations, and reminders about errands to be performed. This first notebook thus took the random form which would characterize most of those to follow. About the text: In order to avoid editorial misrepresentation and to preserve the texture of autograph documents, the entries are presented in their original, often unfinished, form with most of Clemens' irregularities, inconsistencies, errors, and cancellations unchanged. Clemens' cancellations are included in the text enclosed in angle brackets, thus ‹word›; editorially-supplied conjectural readings are in square brackets, thus [word]; hyphens within square brackets stand for unreadable letters, thus [--]; and editorial remarks are italicized and enclosed in square brackets, thus [blank page}- A slash separates alternative readings which Clemens left unresolved, thus word/word. The separation of entries is indicated on the printed page by extra space between lines; when the end of a manuscript entry coincides with the end of a page of the printed text, the symbol [#] follows the entry. A full discussion of textual procedures accompanies the tables of emendation and details of inscription in the Textual Apparatus at the end of each volume; specific textual problems are explained in headnotes or footnotes when unusual situations warrant

     
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    Series: The Mark Twain Papers ; 8
    Subjects: American literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
    Other subjects: 19th century literature; american author; american literature; casual twain; classics; day in the life; everyday twain; hannibal; humor; juvenilia; literary criticism; marginalia; mark twain; missouri; nonfiction; phrenology; samuel clemens; satire; social commentary; travel writings; turn of the century; twain drafts; twains notebook; unpublished twain
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  16. Sing with the Heart of a Bear
    Fusions of Native and American Poetry, 1890-1999
    Author: Lincoln, Kenneth
    Published: [2000]; ©1999
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    Examining contemporary poetry by way of ethnicity and gender, Kenneth Lincoln tracks the Renaissance invention of the Wild Man and the recurrent Adamic myth of the lost Garden. He discusses the first anthology of American Indian verse, The Path on... more

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    Examining contemporary poetry by way of ethnicity and gender, Kenneth Lincoln tracks the Renaissance invention of the Wild Man and the recurrent Adamic myth of the lost Garden. He discusses the first anthology of American Indian verse, The Path on the Rainbow (1918), which opened Jorge Luis Borges' university surveys of American literature, to thirty-five contemporary Indian poets who speak to, with, and against American mainstream bards. From Whitman's free verse, through the Greenwich Village Renaissance (sandwiched between the world wars) and the post-apocalyptic Beat incantations, to transglobal questions of tribe and verse at the century's close, Lincoln shows where we mine the mother lode of New World voices, what distinguishes American verse, which tales our poets sing and what inflections we hear in the rhythms, pitches, and parsings of native lines.Lincoln presents the Lakota concept of "singing with the heart of a bear" as poetry which moves through an artist. He argues for a fusion of estranged cultures, tribal and émigré, margin and mainstream, in detailing the ethnopoetics of Native American translation and the growing modernist concern for a "native" sense of the "makings" of American verse. This fascinating work represents a major new effort in understanding American and Native American literature, spirituality, and culture

     
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  17. Dangerous Intimacy
    The Untold Story of Mark Twain’s Final Years
    Author: Lystra, Karen
    Published: [2004]; ©2004
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    The last phase of Mark Twain's life is sadly familiar: Crippled by losses and tragedies, America's greatest humorist sank into a deep and bitter depression. It is also wrong. This book recovers Twain's final years as they really were—lived in the... more

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    The last phase of Mark Twain's life is sadly familiar: Crippled by losses and tragedies, America's greatest humorist sank into a deep and bitter depression. It is also wrong. This book recovers Twain's final years as they really were—lived in the shadow of deception and prejudice, but also in the light of the author's unflagging energy and enthusiasm. Dangerous Intimacy relates the story of how, shortly after his wife's death in 1904, Twain basked in the attentions of Isabel Lyon, his flirtatious—and calculating—secretary. Lyon desperately wanted to marry her boss, who was almost thirty years her senior. She managed to exile Twain's youngest daughter, Jean, who had epilepsy. With the help of Twain's assistant, Ralph Ashcroft, who fraudulently acquired power of attorney over the author's finances, Lyon nearly succeeded in assuming complete control over Twain's life and estate. Fortunately, Twain recognized the plot being woven around him just in time. So rife with twists and turns as to defy belief, the story nonetheless comes to undeniable, vibrant life in the letters and diaries of those who witnessed it firsthand: Katy the housekeeper, Jean, Lyon, and others whose own distinctive, perceptive, often amusing voices take us straight into the heart of the Clemens household. Just as Twain extricated himself from the lies, prejudice, and self-delusion that almost turned him into an American Lear, so Karen Lystra liberates the author's last decade from a century of popular misunderstanding. In this gripping book we at last see how, late in life, this American icon discovered a deep kinship with his youngest child and continued to explore the precarious balance of love and pain that is one of the trademarks of his work

     
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  18. Is He Dead?
    A Comedy in Three Acts
    Author: Twain, Mark
    Published: [2003]; ©2003
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    The University of California Press is delighted to announce the new publication of this three-act play by one of America's most important and well-loved writers. A highly entertaining comedy that has never appeared in print or on stage, Is He Dead?... more

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    The University of California Press is delighted to announce the new publication of this three-act play by one of America's most important and well-loved writers. A highly entertaining comedy that has never appeared in print or on stage, Is He Dead? is finally available to the wide audience Mark Twain wished it to reach. Written in 1898 in Vienna as Twain emerged from one of the deepest depressions of his life, the play shows its author's superb gift for humor operating at its most energetic. The text of Is He Dead?, based on the manuscript in the Mark Twain Papers, appears here together with an illuminating essay by renowned Mark Twain scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin and with Barry Moser's original woodcut illustrations in a volume that will surely become a treasured addition to the Mark Twain legacy. Richly intermingling elements of burlesque, farce, and social satire with a wry look at the world market in art, Is He Dead? centers on a group of poor artists in Barbizon, France, who stage the death of a friend to drive up the price of his paintings. In order to make this scheme succeed, the artists hatch some hilarious plots involving cross-dressing, a full-scale fake funeral, lovers' deceptions, and much more. Mark Twain was fascinated by the theater and made many attempts at playwriting, but this play is certainly his best. Is He Dead? may have been too "out there" for the Victorian 1890s, but today's readers will thoroughly enjoy Mark Twain's well-crafted dialogue, intriguing cast of characters, and above all, his characteristic ebullience and humor. In Shelley Fisher Fishkin's estimation, it is "a champagne cocktail of a play--not too dry, not too sweet, with just the right amount of bubbles and buzz."

     
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    Series: Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Writings of Mark Twain ; 1
    Subjects: Artists; Death; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
    Other subjects: america; american drama; american literature; american theater; art and literature; burlesque; comedy theater; comedy; deception; famous authors; farce; harebrained schemes; humor; humorists; illustrated; literary criticism; literary icons; live entertainment; manuscript; men and women; modern audiences; performing arts; playwrights; social commentary; social satire; stage play; theatrical productions; twain scholars; world market
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  19. Gone
    Poems
    Author: Howe, Fanny
    Published: [2003]; ©2003
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    This collection of new poems by one of the most respected poets in the United States uses motifs of advance and recovery, doubt and conviction—in an emotional relation to the known world. Heralded as "one of our most vital, unclassifiable writers" by... more

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    This collection of new poems by one of the most respected poets in the United States uses motifs of advance and recovery, doubt and conviction—in an emotional relation to the known world. Heralded as "one of our most vital, unclassifiable writers" by the Voice Literary Supplement, Fanny Howe has published more than twenty books and is the recipient of the Gold Medal for Poetry from the Commonwealth Club of California. In addition, her Selected Poems received the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the Most Outstanding Book of Poetry Published in 2000 from the Academy of American Poets.The poems in Gone describe the transit of a psyche, driven by uncertainty and by love, through various stations and experiences. This volume of short poems and one lyrical essay, all written in the last five years, is broken into five parts; and the longest of these, "The Passion," consecrates the contradictions between these two emotions. The New York Times Book Review said, "Howe has made a long-term project of trying to determine how we fit into God's world, and her aim is both true and marvelously free of sentimental piety." With Gone, readers will have the opportunity to experience firsthand Howe’s continuation of that elusive and fascinating endeavor

     
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  20. Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems
    History and Influence in Mexican-American Social Poetry
    Author: Limón, José E.
    Published: [1992]; ©1992
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems combines literary theory with the personal engagement of a prominent Chicano scholar. Recalling his experiences as a student in Texas, José Limón examines the politically motivated Chicano poetry of the 60s and 70s. He... more

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    Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems combines literary theory with the personal engagement of a prominent Chicano scholar. Recalling his experiences as a student in Texas, José Limón examines the politically motivated Chicano poetry of the 60s and 70s. He bases his analyses on Harold Bloom's theories of literary influence but takes Bloom into the socio-political realm. Limón shows how Chicano poetry is nourished by the oral tradition of the Mexican corrido, or master ballad, which was a vital part of artistic and political life along the Mexican-U.S. border from 1890 to 1930.Limón's use of Bloom, as well as of Marxist critics Raymond Williams and Fredric Jameson, brings Chicano literature into the arena of contemporary literary theory. By focusing on an important but little-studied poetic tradition, his book challenges our ideas of the American canon and extends the reach of Hispanists and folklorists as well

     
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  21. Autobiography of Mark Twain
    Volume 1, Reader’s Edition
    Author: Twain, Mark
    Published: [2012]; ©2012
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    The year 2010 marked the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain’s death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain’s works, UC Press published Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, the first... more

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    The year 2010 marked the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain’s death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain’s works, UC Press published Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, the first of a projected three-volume edition of the complete, uncensored autobiography. The book became an immediate bestseller and was hailed as the capstone of the life’s work of America’s favorite author.This Reader’s Edition, a portable paperback in larger type, republishes the text of the hardcover Autobiography in a form that is convenient for the general reader, without the editorial explanatory notes. It includes a brief introduction describing the evolution of Mark Twain’s ideas about writing his autobiography, as well as a chronology of his life, brief family biographies, and an excerpt from the forthcoming Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2—a controversial but characteristically humorous attack on Christian doctrine

     
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  22. The Banjo Clock
    Author: Garthe, Karen
    Published: [2012]; ©2012
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    For Karen Garthe, poetry is a Molotov cocktail. A master of radical invention, Garthe combines brio of conception with linguistic virtuosity, bringing language to new life from the inside at breakneck speed. The Banjo Clock, her second collection,... more

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    For Karen Garthe, poetry is a Molotov cocktail. A master of radical invention, Garthe combines brio of conception with linguistic virtuosity, bringing language to new life from the inside at breakneck speed. The Banjo Clock, her second collection, cultivates a luxuriant sensibility even as it interrupts poetic continuity with cuts, ironies, sharp wit, and wild recklessness. In poems that consider poetry itself, Garthe writes about preparing the medium, the ink, "the motion of new utility." She then turns to America’s psychic maladies and the need to rehabilitate our democracy, now floundering in the glare of TV’s blue depressive light

     
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  23. Tom Sawyer Abroad / Tom Sawyer, Detective
    Author: Twain, Mark
    Published: [2011]; ©2011
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    These unjustly neglected works, among the most enjoyable of Mark Twain's novels, follow Tom, Huck, and Jim as they travel across the Atlantic in a balloon, then down the Mississippi to help solve a mysterious crime. Both with the original... more

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    These unjustly neglected works, among the most enjoyable of Mark Twain's novels, follow Tom, Huck, and Jim as they travel across the Atlantic in a balloon, then down the Mississippi to help solve a mysterious crime. Both with the original illustrations by Dan Beard and A.B. Frost."Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? No, he wasn’t. It only just pisoned him for more." So Huck declares at the start of these once-celebrated but now little-known sequels to his own adventures. Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas and see some of the world’s greatest wonders

     
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  24. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians
    And Other Unfinished Stories
    Author: Twain, Mark
    Published: [2011]; ©2011
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    o Includes the authoritative texts for eleven pieces written between 1868 and 1902o Publishes, for the first time, the complete text of "Villagers of 1840-3," Mark Twain's astounding feat of memoryo Features a biographical directory and notes that... more

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    o Includes the authoritative texts for eleven pieces written between 1868 and 1902o Publishes, for the first time, the complete text of "Villagers of 1840-3," Mark Twain's astounding feat of memoryo Features a biographical directory and notes that reflect extensive new research on Mark Twain's early life in MissouriThroughout 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

     
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  25. No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger
    Author: Twain, Mark
    Published: [2011]; ©2011
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    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... more

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    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

     
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