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Persona and Humor in Mark Twain's Early Writings

By Don Florence

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Hardcover:

9780826210258 | Univ of Missouri Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $42.00

9780826260529 | Univ of Missouri Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $42.00

The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain

Product Description: 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 by major critics on the hotly debated dynamics of race and slavery perceptible throughout his writing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Forrest G. Robinson (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780521440363 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1995, cover price $67.99 | About this edition: The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain offers new and thought-provoking essays on an author of enduring preeminence in the American canon.

Paperback:

9780521445931 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1995, cover price $39.99

Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self

By Bruce Michelson

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Hardcover:

9780870239663 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, May 1, 1995, cover price $45.00

Paperback:

9780870239670 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, May 1, 1995, cover price $24.95

Melville and Repose: The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance

By John Bryant

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Hardcover:

9780195077827 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 28, 1993, cover price $170.00

What's So Funny?: Wit and Humor in American Children's Literature

Surveys the works of Hugh Lofting, Walter Brooks, Robert Lawson, Sid Fleischman, and Beverly Cleary

By Michael Cart

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Hardcover:

9780060244538 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, March 1, 1995, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Surveys the works of Hugh Lofting, Walter Brooks, Robert Lawson, Sid Fleischman, and Beverly Cleary

Garrison Keillor

Product Description: In 1985 Time magazine ran on its cover Garrison Keillor's face superimposed across the fictional town of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, taking the publication of Keillor's book of the same name as an occasion to raise some hoopla over this "radio bard" (he was then host of the highly acclaimed "A Prairie Home Companion" variety show) and humorist nonpareil...read more

By Peter A. Scholl

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Hardcover:

9780805739879 | Twayne Pub, August 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In 1985 Time magazine ran on its cover Garrison Keillor's face superimposed across the fictional town of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, taking the publication of Keillor's book of the same name as an occasion to raise some hoopla over this "radio bard" (he was then host of the highly acclaimed "A Prairie Home Companion" variety show) and humorist nonpareil.

Paperback:

9780877454809 | Reprint edition (Univ of Iowa Pr, October 1, 1994), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: In 1985 Time magazine ran on its cover Garrison Keillor's face superimposed across the fictional town of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, taking the publication of Keillor's book of the same name as an occasion to raise some hoopla over this "radio bard" (he was then host of the highly acclaimed "A Prairie Home Companion" variety show) and humorist nonpareil.

Comic Sense: Reading Robert Coover, Stanley Elkin, Philip Roth

Product Description: The idea for this study came to me in the course of my reading of innovaÂ tive US-American! fiction of the last three decades. I observed that much of it is cast in the comic mode - or, more precisely, that there seems to be in contemporary fiction an affinity between 'innovation' and 'the comic' and that this affinity, furthermore, appears to be characteristic of postmoÂ dernism...read more

By Thomas Pughe

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9780817650230 | Birkhauser, December 1, 1994, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: The idea for this study came to me in the course of my reading of innovaÂ tive US-American!

9783764350239 | Birkhauser, April 1, 1994, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: This text aims to increase the reader's understanding of the comic in the work of three major contemporary North American writers.

Mark Twain: A Collection of Critical Essays

By Eric J. Sundquist (editor)

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Paperback:

9780135641705 | Prentice Hall Direct, January 1, 1994, cover price $12.95

Mark Twain

By Stuart Hutchinson (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781873403099 | Routledge, December 17, 1993, cover price $870.00

Essays on American Humor: Blair Through the Ages

Product Description: Walter Blair, this book claims, was the literary scholar who, almost single-handedly, gave the study of American humour significance in the academic world. By categorizing the writings of American literary humorists into such diverse styles as the Old Southwest, Local Colour and Literary Comedian humour - each having serious social import - Blair abolished the notion that they were all practicing the same kind of intellectual irreverence...read more

By Walter Blair and Hamlin Hill (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780299136208 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Walter Blair, this book claims, was the literary scholar who, almost single-handedly, gave the study of American humour significance in the academic world.

Comedic Pathos: Black Humor in Mark Twain's Fiction

By Patricia M. Mandia

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Hardcover:

9780899506425 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 1, 1991, cover price $32.50

The Contemporary American Comic Epic: The Novels of Barth, Pynchon, Gaddis, and Kesey

Product Description: Elaine Safer's critically acclaimed work analyzes how 20th century epic writers make ironic use of traditional themes and patterns to develop a new genre, the American comic epic novel. Illustrating practical criticism at its best, the book closely scrutinizes six modern comic novels from John Barth, Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis , and Ken Kesey...read more

By Elaine B. Safer

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9780814320501 | Reprint edition (Wayne State Univ Pr, June 1, 1990), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Elaine Safer's critically acclaimed work analyzes how 20th century epic writers make ironic use of traditional themes and patterns to develop a new genre, the American comic epic novel.

The Duplicating Imagination: Twain and the Twain Papers

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By Maria Ornella Marotti

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Hardcover:

9780271006505 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, January 1, 1990, cover price $53.95

Paperback:

9780072851229, titled "Microsoft Asp.Net Step by Step" | Irwin Professional Pub, October 1, 2002, cover price $35.50 | also contains Microsoft Asp.Net Step by Step

9780271026527 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, February 1, 1990, cover price $35.95

Dark Twins: Imposture and Identity in Mark Twain's America

Product Description: "Many persons have such a horror of being taken in," wrote P. T. Barnum, "that they believe themselves to be a sham and are continually humbugging themselves." Mark Twain enjoyed trading on that horror, as the many confidence men, assumed identities, and disguised characters in his fiction attest...read more

By Susan Gillman

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Hardcover:

9780226293868 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 15, 1989, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: "Many persons have such a horror of being taken in," wrote P.

Paperback:

9780226293875 | Univ of Chicago Pr, February 1, 1989, cover price $32.00

Mark Twain

Profiles the life and career of Samuel Clemens and analyzes his writings

By John C. Gerber

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Hardcover:

9780805775181 | Twayne Pub, May 1, 1988, cover price $57.00 | About this edition: Profiles the life and career of Samuel Clemens and analyzes his writings

On Mark Twain

Product Description: From 1929 to the latest issue, American Literature has been the foremost journal expressing the findings of those who study our national literature. American Literature has published the best work of literary historians, critics, and bibliographers, ranging from the founders of discipline to the best current critics and researchers...read more

By Louis J. Budd (editor) and Edwin Harrison Cady (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780822307594 | Duke Univ Pr, October 1, 1987, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: From 1929 to the latest issue, American Literature has been the foremost journal expressing the findings of those who study our national literature.

Readers Guide to the Short Stories of Mark Twain

Product Description: Fantastic BOOK!

By James D. Wilson

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Hardcover:

9780816187218 | G K Hall, June 1, 1987, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Fantastic BOOK!

Samuel Clemens: A Mysterious Stranger

By Hans Borchers and Danielle Williams

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Paperback:

9783820495317 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 1, 1986, cover price $38.45

Mark Twain: A Sumptuous Variety

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By Robert Giddings (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780389205418 | Barnes & Noble Imports, June 1, 1985, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.

Mark Twain

Traces Twain's life, discusses his major novels and writings, and assesses his place in American literature

By Robert Keith Miller

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Hardcover:

9780804426275 | Ungar Pub Co, October 1, 1983, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Traces Twain's life, discusses his major novels and writings, and assesses his place in American literature

Paperback:

9780804464963 | Ungar Pub Co, December 1, 1983, cover price $7.95

Mr. Dooley and Mr. Dunne: The Literary Life of a Chicago Catholic

By Edward J. Bander

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Hardcover:

9780872153295 | Bobbs-Merrill Co, November 1, 1981, cover price $17.50

Critical Approaches to Mark Twain's Short Stories

Essays offer varying interpretations of eight of Twain's stories and discuss his writing style

By Elizabeth McMahan (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780804692748 | Associated Faculty Pr Inc, June 1, 1981, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Essays offer varying interpretations of eight of Twain's stories and discuss his writing style

The Last Laugh: Form and Affirmation in the Contemporary American Comic Novel

By Ronald Wallace

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Hardcover:

9780826202741 | Univ of Missouri Pr, September 1, 1979, cover price $22.50

John Barth: The Comic Sublimity of Paradox

Product Description: John Barth is an amazingly versatile novÂelist who has attempted every imaginable fictional genre from word games to a tale told by a computer. Jac Tharpeâs brilliant analysis is the first and only comprehenÂsive study to date to attempt to chart Barthâs philosophical, comic, and stylistic development...read more

By Jac Tharpe

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Hardcover:

9780809307029 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, November 1, 1974, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Assesses the novelist's development and achievement through an examination of his philosophical and comic vision and the individual novels as dramatizations of paradox through formal and stylistic transformations

Paperback:

9780809308361 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, August 1, 1977, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: John Barth is an amazingly versatile novÂelist who has attempted every imaginable fictional genre from word games to a tale told by a computer.

The Art of Mark Twain

Surveys Twain's achievements in the many modes and genres he assayed, examining new material and approaches and emphasizing the brilliance of Twain's shorter works

By William Merriam Gibson

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Hardcover:

9780195019933 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 1976, cover price $22.50 | also contains Benedicti Regula: Editio Altera Emendata | About this edition: Surveys Twain's achievements in the many modes and genres he assayed, examining new material and approaches and emphasizing the brilliance of Twain's shorter works

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