Mark Twain and the Novel - The Double-Cross of Authority

Klappentext This book provides a fresh look at Twain's major novels such as Life on the Mississippi! Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Zusammenfassung Marked by disruptions! repetition! and contradictions! the novels of Mark Twain exemplify the ideological stand-off between the American ideal of individual freedom and the reality of social control. This book provides a fresh look at some of Twain's major novels! such as Life on the Mississippi! Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Mark Twain's Big Two-Hearted River text; 2. Catching Mark Twain's drift; 3. Reinventing and circumventing history; 4. Twaining is everything.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence Howe, Lawrence (Roosevelt University Howe
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.07.2009
• EAN: 9780521107624
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10762-4
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies