Mark Twain on the Art of Writing
Title | Mark Twain on the Art of Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Twain |
Publisher | |
Pages | 29 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Authorship |
ISBN | 9780849208300 |
Mark Twain and the Art of Writing
Title | Mark Twain and the Art of Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Brander Matthews |
Publisher | |
Pages | 643 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | Authorship |
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Mark Twain on the Art of Writing. Edited by M.B. Fried. [Two Articles, Originally Published in the "Buffalo Express".].
Title | Mark Twain on the Art of Writing. Edited by M.B. Fried. [Two Articles, Originally Published in the "Buffalo Express".]. PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Langhorne Clemens |
Publisher | |
Pages | 29 |
Release | 1961 |
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Great Writers on the Art of Fiction
Title | Great Writers on the Art of Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | James Daley |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2012-12-19 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0486122042 |
An indispensable source of advice and inspiration, this anthology features essays by Henry James, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, Raymond Chandler, Raymond Carver, Eudora Welty, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
On the Decay of the Art of Lying
Title | On the Decay of the Art of Lying PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Twain |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 10 |
Release | 2018-02-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3732630994 |
Reproduction of the original.
Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale
Title | Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale PDF eBook |
Author | Henry B. Wonham |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0195078012 |
Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale explores a predominantly 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 the tall tale in American oral and written traditions. After surveying the rich history of yarn-spinning in America, Wonham traces Twain's appropriation of the genre through the course of his career, from The Innocents Abroad to Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Pudd'nhead Wilson. He contends that as Twain turned from short sketches to extended travelogues and quasi-fiction, he found in the tall tale a means of dramatizing his disparate comic material. Later, as Twain worked consciously to purge his writing of its anecdotal quality, the oral genre remained central to his imagination - less as a source of comic material than as a paradigmatic encounter between competing points of view, an encounter that resonates throughout the author's major fiction. Offering an original interpretation of Twain's narrative and rhetorical techniques, this absorbing and readable study will interest Twain enthusiasts and students of nineteenth-century American literature, as well as anyone interested in American humor and oral narrative traditions.
Mark Twain's Autobiography
Title | Mark Twain's Autobiography PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Twain |
Publisher | |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 1924 |
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