Mark Twain & the community / Thomas Blues.

By:

Blues, Thomas [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780813162157
0813162157

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mark Twain & the communityDDC classification:

813.4 23

LOC classification:

PS1338

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter One: The Strategy of Compromise; Chapter Two: A Connecticut Yankee: ""Ah, What a Donkey I Was""; Chapter Three: The Yankee as Old Man; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; J; K; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W.

Summary: Throughout his career Mark Twain viewed the relations between the individual and his community with mixed feelings, and this book explores both the ambiguities of Twain's attitude and their effect upon his fiction. In the earlier novels -- most notably The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn -- the protagonist enjoys a dual position -- at liberty to follow his own inclinations while retaining his conventional place as a respected member of the community -- and the resolutions of these works are built upon this duality. Facing realities which the earlier fiction evaded, Twain in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court found himself in a dilemma that he was unable to resolve: the community was no longer seen as a moral refuge and, most importantly, the individual was no longer seen as superior to the community standards against which he revolted. Thomas Blues contends that Twain's failure to reconcile this opposition largely accounts for the bitter, cynical fiction at the close of his career, and through use of the individual-community relationship he offers here fresh interpretations of Twain's most widely read novels.

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"A University of Kentucky study."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Throughout his career Mark Twain viewed the relations between the individual and his community with mixed feelings, and this book explores both the ambiguities of Twain's attitude and their effect upon his fiction. In the earlier novels -- most notably The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn -- the protagonist enjoys a dual position -- at liberty to follow his own inclinations while retaining his conventional place as a respected member of the community -- and the resolutions of these works are built upon this duality. Facing realities which the earlier fiction evaded, Twain in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court found himself in a dilemma that he was unable to resolve: the community was no longer seen as a moral refuge and, most importantly, the individual was no longer seen as superior to the community standards against which he revolted. Thomas Blues contends that Twain's failure to reconcile this opposition largely accounts for the bitter, cynical fiction at the close of his career, and through use of the individual-community relationship he offers here fresh interpretations of Twain's most widely read novels.

Print version record.

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