Oxford University Press, 2003. — 800 p. For what scandalous reason was the original publication of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn delayed? What were the names of Samuel Clemens pets? How are his attitudes towards politics and religion revealed in his work? Find the answers to these questions and many more in The Oxford Companion to Mark Twain, which encapsulates the most...
University of California Press, 2018. — 464 p. Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples is the first book-length study of the writer’s evolving views regarding the aboriginal inhabitants of North America and the Southern Hemisphere, and his deeply conflicted representations of them in fiction, newspaper sketches, and speeches. Using a wide range of archival...
New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1995 — 551 p. — ISBN 978-0-312-12261-4. This case study consists of the complete 1885 text of the novel and eighteen essays, grouped according to three important controversies surrounding it. We also include editorial commentary that prepares students to consider Huckleberry Finn in the context of critical and cultural debates.
New York: Cavendish Square Publishing LLC, 2014. — 114 p. Born Samuel Langhorn Clemens, Mark Twain was a humorist and author considered by many to be one of the defining voices in American literature. Twain is responsible for such works as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
Lanham: UPA, 2014. — 518 p. Mark Twain is America’s—perhaps the world’s—best known humorous writer. Yet many commentators in his time and our own have thought of humor as merely an attractive surface feature rather than a crucial part of both the meaning and the structure of Twain’s writings. This book begins with a discussion of humor, and then demonstrates how Twain’s...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 152 p.
Mark Twain is a central figure in nineteenth-century American literature, and his novels are among the best-known and most often studied texts in the field. This clear and incisive introduction provides a biography of the author and situates his works in the historical and cultural context of his times. Peter Messent gives accessible...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 284 p. The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain offers new and thought-provoking essays on an author of enduring preeminence in the American canon. Accessible enough to interest both experienced specialists and students new to Twain criticism, the essays examine Twain from a wide variety of critical perspectives, and include timely reflections...
University of Missouri Press, 2008. - 287 p. ISBN: 082621827X Cosmopolitan Twain takes seriously Mark Twain’s life as a citizen of urban landscapes: from the streets of New York City to the palaces of Vienna to the suburban utopia of Hartford. Traditional readings of Mark Twain orient his life and work by distinctly rural markers such as the Mississippi River, the Wild West,...
Greenwood Press, 2001. — 188 p. Mark Twain's legacy is an extensive canon of writings that includes some of the most widely read, staged, debated, reinterpreted, and filmed works ever. This introductory critical study helps students and general readers appreciate the myriad perspectives of the man, his life, and his contributions to American literature. A fresh biographical...
М.: ВК, 2004. — 300 с.
Данное исследование творчества Марка Твена на широком фоне американской и мировой литературы представляет этого писателя ярким воплощением национального характера и национального типа мышления. В книге рассмотрены важные проблемы развития литературы США: своеобразие юмора и реализма, магистральный сюжет американской культуры и коренной перелом...
М.: Детская литература, 1985. Очерк жизни и творчества выдающегося американского писателя, в котором биография писателя тесно переплетается с биографией его книг. Анализ творчества М. Твена дан на фоне основных событий американской истории. Флорида и Ганнибал. От реки к океану. Марк Твен улыбается. Удивительный мальчик Том. На плоту. Свет истории. Клокочущий вулкан. Основные даты...
М.: Детская литература, 1985. — 175 с. Очерк жизни и творчества выдающегося американского писателя, в котором биография писателя тесно переплетается с биографией его книг. Анализ творчества Марка Твена дан на фоне основных событий американской истории. Флорида и Ганнибал. От реки к океану. Марк Твен улыбается. Удивительный мальчик Том. На плоту. Свет истории. Клокочущий вулкан....
М.: Наука, 1977. - 193 с. (Из истории мировой культуры)
В книге освещается творческий путь великого американского писателя Марка Твена (1835-1910). Анализируя произведения Твена, автор показывает их идейно-художественное своеобразие, прослеживает эволюцию творческого формирования писателя, раскрывает природу его сатиры и юмора. В книге Твен предстает как художник,...
М.: Наука, 1977. - 193 с. (Из истории мировой культуры)
В книге освещается творческий путь великого американского писателя Марка Твена (1835-1910). Анализируя произведения Твена, автор показывает их идейно-художественное своеобразие, прослеживает эволюцию творческого формирования писателя, раскрывает природу его сатиры и юмора. В книге Твен предстает как художник,...
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