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Critical essays on Mark Twain, 1910-1980 / [edited by] Louis J. Budd.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical essays on American literaturePublication details: Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1983.Description: viii, 241 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0816186529 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 818/.409 19
LOC classification:
  • PS1331 .C76 1983
Contents:
Introduction / Louis J. Budd -- The international fame of Mark Twain / Archibald Henderson -- Mark Twain's portrait / Anonymous -- A literary American / Stuart P. Sherman -- Review of A.B. Paine's Biography / William Dean Howells -- The man within / H.L. Mencken -- The tragedy of Mark Twain / Alvin Johnson -- Mark Twain and the art of writing / Brander Matthews -- Mark Twain and Bernard Shaw / Carl Van Doren -- On the rating of Mark Twain / Fred Lewis Pattee -- Mark Twain : 1835-1935 / Newton Arvin -- A century of Mark Twain / Mark Van Doren -- In homage to Mark Twain / Owen Wister -- Mark Twain and the American tradition / Robert Herrick -- Mark Twain's views on education / Robert T. Oliver -- The two Mark Twains / Robert M. Gay -- America's voice is Mark Twain's / Herman Wouk -- Humor in a tough age / Kenneth Rexroth -- Twain : a yearning for yesterday / Leslie Hanscom -- Mark Twain's use of the comic pose / John C. Gerber -- Mark Twain and Charlie Chaplin as heroes of popular culture / Glauco Cambon -- Mark Twain and Sholelm Aleichem / Edward Field -- Mark Twain, Mencken and 'The higher goofyism' / C. Merton Babcock -- Hal Holbrook Tonight! / Richard Schickel -- Mark Twain as Proteus : ironic form and fictive integrity / Maurice F. Brown -- The theology of Mark Twain : banished Adam and the Bible / Stanley Brodwin -- 'Tears and flapdoodle' : point of view and style in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Janet Holmgren McKay -- Mark Twain and his times : a bicentennial appreciation / Arthur G. Pettit -- 'Mark Twain and the Pope / Anonymous -- Mark Twain and the anxiety of entertainment / Judith Fetterley -- Mark Twain fights Sam Clemens' duel / Leland Krauth.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction / Louis J. Budd -- The international fame of Mark Twain / Archibald Henderson -- Mark Twain's portrait / Anonymous -- A literary American / Stuart P. Sherman -- Review of A.B. Paine's Biography / William Dean Howells -- The man within / H.L. Mencken -- The tragedy of Mark Twain / Alvin Johnson -- Mark Twain and the art of writing / Brander Matthews -- Mark Twain and Bernard Shaw / Carl Van Doren -- On the rating of Mark Twain / Fred Lewis Pattee -- Mark Twain : 1835-1935 / Newton Arvin -- A century of Mark Twain / Mark Van Doren -- In homage to Mark Twain / Owen Wister -- Mark Twain and the American tradition / Robert Herrick -- Mark Twain's views on education / Robert T. Oliver -- The two Mark Twains / Robert M. Gay -- America's voice is Mark Twain's / Herman Wouk -- Humor in a tough age / Kenneth Rexroth -- Twain : a yearning for yesterday / Leslie Hanscom -- Mark Twain's use of the comic pose / John C. Gerber -- Mark Twain and Charlie Chaplin as heroes of popular culture / Glauco Cambon -- Mark Twain and Sholelm Aleichem / Edward Field -- Mark Twain, Mencken and 'The higher goofyism' / C. Merton Babcock -- Hal Holbrook Tonight! / Richard Schickel -- Mark Twain as Proteus : ironic form and fictive integrity / Maurice F. Brown -- The theology of Mark Twain : banished Adam and the Bible / Stanley Brodwin -- 'Tears and flapdoodle' : point of view and style in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Janet Holmgren McKay -- Mark Twain and his times : a bicentennial appreciation / Arthur G. Pettit -- 'Mark Twain and the Pope / Anonymous -- Mark Twain and the anxiety of entertainment / Judith Fetterley -- Mark Twain fights Sam Clemens' duel / Leland Krauth.