Constructing Mark Twain : new directions in scholarship /

Table of Contents: “…Mark Twain and the tradition of literary domesticity / Michael J. …”
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Stories, poems, and other writings / by Cather, Willa, 1873-1947

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Ticket to Minto : Stories of India and America / by Fracis, Sohrab Homi, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…-- Keeping time -- The Mark Twain Overlook.…”
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They aren't, until I call them : performing the subject in American literature / by Bollobás, Enikő

Table of Contents: “…TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 7; INTRODUCTION 9; CHAPTER ONE: THE STRONG PERFORMATIVE 25; The performative: early history 25; Logos, the originary instance of the strong performative: some Biblical examples 31; A performative genre par excellence: the declaration and the manifesto 38; Word power (Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God; Norman Mailer, 'The Time of Her Time') 45; Alternative realities as performative creations (Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger; Ambrose Bierce, 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge') 50…”
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The freak-garde : extraordinary bodies and revolutionary art in America / by Blyn, Robin

Table of Contents: “…Unbecoming Subjects: Freak Shows and the American Avant-garde; 1 A Curious Education: Mark Twain's Corporate Persons; 2 Between Silence and Sound: The Lon Chaney Sensation; 3 Decadence in the Age of Fascism: Djuna Barnes's Freak Dandies; 4 Dada in Hollywood: Nathanael West's Human Machines; 5 The Biology of Revolution: Mapping Mutation with Diane Arbus; Coda. …”
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Lessons from a dark time and other essays / by Hochschild, Adam

Table of Contents: “…-- Sunday school history -- Pilot on the great river : Mark Twain's nonfiction -- A literary engineer -- A nation of guns -- The continent of words -- You never know what's going to happen yesterday -- Practicing history without a license -- On the road again -- Books and our souls.…”
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Vonnegut in fact : the public spokesmanship of personal fiction / by Klinkowitz, Jerome

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The Fable of the Southern Writer. by Simpson, Lewis P.

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Jersey breaks : becoming an American poet / by Pinsky, Robert

Alice to the lighthouse : children's books and radical experiments in art / by Dusinberre, Juliet

Reading Embodied Citizenship : Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic / by Russell, Emily, 1979-

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Dialect and dichotomy : literary representations of African American speech / by Minnick, Lisa Cohen

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London in his own time : a biographical chronicle of his life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates /

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Literature and telephony : 1940 to the present / by Jackson, Sarah

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Twice-told children's tales : the influence of childhood reading on writers for adults /

Table of Contents: “…A child's-eye reading of Mark Twain / Madison Smartt Bell -- Borges and Georgie : childhood reading, adult writing, and the shape of the Latin American fantastic / Kimberly A. …”
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Letters of the century : America, 1900-1999 /

Table of Contents: “…Authors included: Joel Chandler Harris -- Walter Reed -- Andrew Carnegie -- Mark Twain -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Elizabeth Cabot -- William Roscoe Thayer -- Susan B. …”

Dialect and dichotomy : literary representations of African American speech / by Minnick, Lisa Cohen

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Insane sisters, or, The price paid for challenging a company town / by Andrews, Gregg

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Funny business : the legendary life and political satire of Art Buchwald / by Hill, Mike, 1953-

Ernest Hemingway : a biography / by Dearborn, Mary V.