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Product Description: Why did so many of the writers who aligned themselves with the social and aesthetic aims of American literary realism rely on stock conventions of ethnic caricature in their treatment of immigrant and African-American figures? As a self-described "tool of the democratic spirit," designed to "prick the bubble of abstract types," literary realism would seem to have little in common with the aggressively dehumanizing comic imagery that began to proliferate in magazines and newspapers after the Civil War...read more

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9780195161946 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 17, 2004, cover price $78.00 | About this edition: Why did so many of the writers who aligned themselves with the social and aesthetic aims of American literary realism rely on stock conventions of ethnic caricature in their treatment of immigrant and African-American figures?

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Product Description: This volume celebrates the hybridity of American literary culture. Over the last decade and more, American literary studies have tended, with only a few rare and recent exceptions, to look at separate strands of literary history and tradition--African American or white, male or female, lesbian or gay or straight...read more
By Henry B. Wonham (editor)

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9780813522630 | Rutgers Univ Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: This volume celebrates the hybridity of American literary culture.

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Product Description: This volume celebrates the hybridity of American literary culture. Over the last decade and more, American literary studies have tended, with only a few rare and recent exceptions, to look at separate strands of literary history and tradition--African American or white, male or female, lesbian or gay or straight...read more
By Henry B. Wonham (editor)

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9780813522623 | Rutgers Univ Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: This volume celebrates the hybridity of American literary culture.

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Product Description: Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale is a study of a peculiar American comic strategy and its role in Mark Twain's fiction. Focusing on the writer's experiments with narrative structure, Wonham describes how Twain manipulated conventional approaches to reading and writing by engaging his audience in a series of rhetorical games--the rules of which he adapted from the conventions of tall tale in American oral and written traditions...read more

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9780195078015 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 18, 1993, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale is a study of a peculiar American comic strategy and its role in Mark Twain's fiction.

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