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Twain is America's best known humorous writer, yet many commentators have thought of humor as merely an attractive surface feature of Twain's writings. Kolb shows that humor is at the center of Twain's talent, his successes, and his limitations, and it is as a humorist that he is best understood.
Twain is America's best known humorous writer, yet many commentators have thought of humor as merely an attractive surface feature of Twain's writings. Kolb shows that humor is at the center of Twain's talent, his successes, and his limitations, and it is as a humorist that he is best understood.
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- Verlag: University Press of America
- Seitenzahl: 518
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2014
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 35mm
- Gewicht: 986g
- ISBN-13: 9780761864202
- ISBN-10: 0761864202
- Artikelnr.: 41123760
- Verlag: University Press of America
- Seitenzahl: 518
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2014
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 35mm
- Gewicht: 986g
- ISBN-13: 9780761864202
- ISBN-10: 0761864202
- Artikelnr.: 41123760
By Harold H. Kolb Jr.
Introduction Chapter 1: The Shape of a Humorist's Career A Peculiar Genius
Forty-Five Years as a Serio-Humorist A Century of Criticism A Humorist's
Self-Definition Toward a Discussion of Humor Chapter 2: The Physics of
Humor Chapter 3: The Psychology of Humor Relaxation Coping Aggression
Chapter 4: The Sociology of Humor: National Character and Morality American
Humor The Morality of Humor Mark Twain and the Natives, at Home and Abroad
Early Years: Comic Creations (1851-1872) Chapter 5: The Strategy of
Counterpoint The Apprenticeship of a Humorist The Clash of Contrast and the
Stretch of Exaggeration Jump-Starting a Career A Humorist Afloat The
Innocents Abroad Samson Trimmed, Lightly Roughing It Chapter 6: Throw in
Another Grizzly: The Tall Tale in America Middle Years: The Triumph of
Satire (1873-1889) Chapter 7: Old Times and New Narrators "Old Times on the
Mississippi" The Adventures of Tom Sawyer A Joke for John: The Whittier
Birthday Speech Tramping with Twichell A Turn to History: The Prince and
the Pauper Chapter 8: The Non-Example of Bret Harte Chapter 9: Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn The Joke on Jim Beyond Jim: The Humor of Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn Chapter 10: Comic Contrast and Violent Humor: A
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Comic and Satiric Contrasts The
Humor of Violence Satire and Poignancy Chapter 11 The Advocacy of W. D.
Howells Later Years: The Humorist as Ironist (1890-1910) Chapter 12: The
Not-So-Gay Nineties Busted A Bankrupt Abroad Raffish Reviewer Twain's
Twins: Pudd'nhead Wilson Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Gains and
Losses Chapter 13: A Subtle Humorist Recovery Following the Equator Vienna
and London Homecoming Satirist vs. Imperialists Adam and Eve The Higher
Animals The Christian Science Autocracy Shakespeare and the Law God and Man
Pessimist? Remnants Chapter 14: Mysterious Strangers The Texts Editorial
Pain Symbols, and a Theory, of Despair Chapter 15: An Uncharted Sea of
Recollection: Mark Twain's Autobiography Four Twentieth-Century Editions
The Twenty-First Century Definitive Autobiography "The Right Way to Do an
Autobiography" Appendix Books by Mark Twain: A Selected List of American
Editions Published in His Lifetime Tales and Sketches Posthumously
Published Works Sources Key to Abbreviations Notes Other Works Cited Index
Forty-Five Years as a Serio-Humorist A Century of Criticism A Humorist's
Self-Definition Toward a Discussion of Humor Chapter 2: The Physics of
Humor Chapter 3: The Psychology of Humor Relaxation Coping Aggression
Chapter 4: The Sociology of Humor: National Character and Morality American
Humor The Morality of Humor Mark Twain and the Natives, at Home and Abroad
Early Years: Comic Creations (1851-1872) Chapter 5: The Strategy of
Counterpoint The Apprenticeship of a Humorist The Clash of Contrast and the
Stretch of Exaggeration Jump-Starting a Career A Humorist Afloat The
Innocents Abroad Samson Trimmed, Lightly Roughing It Chapter 6: Throw in
Another Grizzly: The Tall Tale in America Middle Years: The Triumph of
Satire (1873-1889) Chapter 7: Old Times and New Narrators "Old Times on the
Mississippi" The Adventures of Tom Sawyer A Joke for John: The Whittier
Birthday Speech Tramping with Twichell A Turn to History: The Prince and
the Pauper Chapter 8: The Non-Example of Bret Harte Chapter 9: Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn The Joke on Jim Beyond Jim: The Humor of Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn Chapter 10: Comic Contrast and Violent Humor: A
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Comic and Satiric Contrasts The
Humor of Violence Satire and Poignancy Chapter 11 The Advocacy of W. D.
Howells Later Years: The Humorist as Ironist (1890-1910) Chapter 12: The
Not-So-Gay Nineties Busted A Bankrupt Abroad Raffish Reviewer Twain's
Twins: Pudd'nhead Wilson Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Gains and
Losses Chapter 13: A Subtle Humorist Recovery Following the Equator Vienna
and London Homecoming Satirist vs. Imperialists Adam and Eve The Higher
Animals The Christian Science Autocracy Shakespeare and the Law God and Man
Pessimist? Remnants Chapter 14: Mysterious Strangers The Texts Editorial
Pain Symbols, and a Theory, of Despair Chapter 15: An Uncharted Sea of
Recollection: Mark Twain's Autobiography Four Twentieth-Century Editions
The Twenty-First Century Definitive Autobiography "The Right Way to Do an
Autobiography" Appendix Books by Mark Twain: A Selected List of American
Editions Published in His Lifetime Tales and Sketches Posthumously
Published Works Sources Key to Abbreviations Notes Other Works Cited Index
Introduction Chapter 1: The Shape of a Humorist's Career A Peculiar Genius
Forty-Five Years as a Serio-Humorist A Century of Criticism A Humorist's
Self-Definition Toward a Discussion of Humor Chapter 2: The Physics of
Humor Chapter 3: The Psychology of Humor Relaxation Coping Aggression
Chapter 4: The Sociology of Humor: National Character and Morality American
Humor The Morality of Humor Mark Twain and the Natives, at Home and Abroad
Early Years: Comic Creations (1851-1872) Chapter 5: The Strategy of
Counterpoint The Apprenticeship of a Humorist The Clash of Contrast and the
Stretch of Exaggeration Jump-Starting a Career A Humorist Afloat The
Innocents Abroad Samson Trimmed, Lightly Roughing It Chapter 6: Throw in
Another Grizzly: The Tall Tale in America Middle Years: The Triumph of
Satire (1873-1889) Chapter 7: Old Times and New Narrators "Old Times on the
Mississippi" The Adventures of Tom Sawyer A Joke for John: The Whittier
Birthday Speech Tramping with Twichell A Turn to History: The Prince and
the Pauper Chapter 8: The Non-Example of Bret Harte Chapter 9: Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn The Joke on Jim Beyond Jim: The Humor of Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn Chapter 10: Comic Contrast and Violent Humor: A
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Comic and Satiric Contrasts The
Humor of Violence Satire and Poignancy Chapter 11 The Advocacy of W. D.
Howells Later Years: The Humorist as Ironist (1890-1910) Chapter 12: The
Not-So-Gay Nineties Busted A Bankrupt Abroad Raffish Reviewer Twain's
Twins: Pudd'nhead Wilson Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Gains and
Losses Chapter 13: A Subtle Humorist Recovery Following the Equator Vienna
and London Homecoming Satirist vs. Imperialists Adam and Eve The Higher
Animals The Christian Science Autocracy Shakespeare and the Law God and Man
Pessimist? Remnants Chapter 14: Mysterious Strangers The Texts Editorial
Pain Symbols, and a Theory, of Despair Chapter 15: An Uncharted Sea of
Recollection: Mark Twain's Autobiography Four Twentieth-Century Editions
The Twenty-First Century Definitive Autobiography "The Right Way to Do an
Autobiography" Appendix Books by Mark Twain: A Selected List of American
Editions Published in His Lifetime Tales and Sketches Posthumously
Published Works Sources Key to Abbreviations Notes Other Works Cited Index
Forty-Five Years as a Serio-Humorist A Century of Criticism A Humorist's
Self-Definition Toward a Discussion of Humor Chapter 2: The Physics of
Humor Chapter 3: The Psychology of Humor Relaxation Coping Aggression
Chapter 4: The Sociology of Humor: National Character and Morality American
Humor The Morality of Humor Mark Twain and the Natives, at Home and Abroad
Early Years: Comic Creations (1851-1872) Chapter 5: The Strategy of
Counterpoint The Apprenticeship of a Humorist The Clash of Contrast and the
Stretch of Exaggeration Jump-Starting a Career A Humorist Afloat The
Innocents Abroad Samson Trimmed, Lightly Roughing It Chapter 6: Throw in
Another Grizzly: The Tall Tale in America Middle Years: The Triumph of
Satire (1873-1889) Chapter 7: Old Times and New Narrators "Old Times on the
Mississippi" The Adventures of Tom Sawyer A Joke for John: The Whittier
Birthday Speech Tramping with Twichell A Turn to History: The Prince and
the Pauper Chapter 8: The Non-Example of Bret Harte Chapter 9: Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn The Joke on Jim Beyond Jim: The Humor of Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn Chapter 10: Comic Contrast and Violent Humor: A
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Comic and Satiric Contrasts The
Humor of Violence Satire and Poignancy Chapter 11 The Advocacy of W. D.
Howells Later Years: The Humorist as Ironist (1890-1910) Chapter 12: The
Not-So-Gay Nineties Busted A Bankrupt Abroad Raffish Reviewer Twain's
Twins: Pudd'nhead Wilson Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Gains and
Losses Chapter 13: A Subtle Humorist Recovery Following the Equator Vienna
and London Homecoming Satirist vs. Imperialists Adam and Eve The Higher
Animals The Christian Science Autocracy Shakespeare and the Law God and Man
Pessimist? Remnants Chapter 14: Mysterious Strangers The Texts Editorial
Pain Symbols, and a Theory, of Despair Chapter 15: An Uncharted Sea of
Recollection: Mark Twain's Autobiography Four Twentieth-Century Editions
The Twenty-First Century Definitive Autobiography "The Right Way to Do an
Autobiography" Appendix Books by Mark Twain: A Selected List of American
Editions Published in His Lifetime Tales and Sketches Posthumously
Published Works Sources Key to Abbreviations Notes Other Works Cited Index