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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Harold H. Kolb Jr. is emeritus professor of American literature at the University of Virginia, where he was the founding director of the American Studies Program and the Center for the Liberal Arts. His writings include articles and monographs on American literature, American history, humor, composition, legal writing, natural history, and education.
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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
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
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