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Critical approaches to Mark Twain's short stories
- Title
- Critical approaches to Mark Twain's short stories / edited by Elizabeth McMahan.
- Publication
- Port Washington, NY : Kennikat Press, 1981.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- McMahan, Elizabeth.
- Description
- x, 147 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Essays offer varying interpretations of eight of Twain's stories and discuss his writing style.
- Series Statement
- National university publications. Literary criticism series
- Uniform Title
- National university publications. Literary criticism series.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- short stories.
- Short stories
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Short stories.
- Nouvelles.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p.
- Contents
- 1. How Mark Twain writes -- Report to the Buffalo Female Academy ; How to tell a story / S.L. Clemens -- Mark Twain's idea of story structure / George Feinstein -- 2. The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras county -- The jumping frog / A.B. Paine -- The art of "The jumping frog" / Gladys Bellamy -- Upset expectations in "The jumping frog" / Kenneth S. Lynn -- The mysterious charm of Simon Wheeler / Henry Nash Smith -- The art and satire of Twain's "Jumping frog" story / Sydney J. Krause -- The structure of "The jumping frog" / James M. Cox -- 3. A true story -- A true story / Philip Foner -- Telling it like it was / Gerald J. Fenger -- The artistry of "A true story" / William M. Gibson -- 4. The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut -- A curious parable / Maxwell Geismar -- Mark Twain's "Carnival of crime" / William M. Gibson -- 5. The £1,000,000 bank-note -- A satire on the system / Philip Foner -- Twain on the "get-rich-quick" mania / Maxwell Geismar -- Mark Twain's money imagery in "The £1,000,000 bank-note" and "The 30,000 bequest" / Ricki Morgan -- 6. The man that corrupted Hadleyburg -- Moralism vs. determinism in "Hadleyburg" / Gladys Bellamy -- The sober affirmation of Mark Twain's "Hadleyburg" / Clinton S. Burhans, Jr. -- Twain's mathematical demonstration of human greed / Henry Nash Smith -- The role of Satan in "The man that corrupted Hadleyburg" / Henry B. Rule -- Twain's ironic parable on the hypocrisy of human virtue / Maxwell Geismar -- Mark Twain's mask of Satan in "Hadleyburg" / Stanley Brodwin -- 7. The 30,000 bequest -- Twain's parody of small souls on the make / Maxwell Geismar -- The complex irony of "The 30,000 bequest" / Gerald J. Fenger -- 8. Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven -- The literary evolution of Captain Ned Wakefield / S.L. Clemens -- The narrative perfection of "Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven" / Gladys Bellamy -- Twain's satire on racism / Louis Budd -- Captain Stormfield as pure burlesque figure / James M. Cox -- The imaginative achievement of "Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven" / William M. Gibson -- 9. The mysterious stranger -- "The mysterious stranger" : Mark Twain's texts and the Paine-Duneka edition / John S. Tuckey -- The gospel according to Philip Traum : structural unity in "The mysterious stranger" / John R. May -- Divine foolishness : a critical evaluation of "The mysterious stranger" / Raymond Varisco.
- ISBN
- 0804692742
- 9780804692748
- LCCN
- 80019026
- OCLC
- ocm06554301
- 6554301
- SCSB-9020948
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library