The life & work of Mark Twain
Title:
The life & work of Mark Twain
Author:
Railton, Stephen, 1948-
Personal Author:
Edition:
Library edition.
Publication Information:
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2002?], c2002]
©2002
Physical Description:
12 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guides (ii, 61, ii, 65 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.).
Summary:
Professor Stephen Railton of the University of Virginia explores the private persona behind the public figure through literary analysis of some of his Mark Twain's most representative works.
General Note:
Compact discs.
In 2 containers (26 cm.).
Compact disc.
Language:
English
Contents:
Pt.1. Needing no introduction? -- From Samuel Clemens to Mark Twain -- The sense of Mark Twain's humor -- Marketing Twain -- Innocents abroad, I: going East -- Innocents abroad, II: traveling to unlearn -- Roughing it going West -- The lecture tours -- The Whittier after dinner speech -- Old times on the Mississippi -- The adventures of Tom Sawyer -- The performances of Tom Sawyer -- Pt.2. Huck Finn, I: defining an american voice -- Huck Finn, II: the quest for freedom -- Huck Finn, III: the great american novel? -- Huck Finn, IV: classrooms and controversy -- Connecticut Yankee, I: unwriting the middle ages -- Connecticut Yankee, II: revisiting the 19th century -- Connecticut Yankee, III: the quest for status -- Pudd'nhead Wilson fictions of law and custom -- Anti-Imperialist works -- Late Twain in public Late Twain in private -- Sam Clemens is dead ; Long live Mark Twain.
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ISBN:
9781565855120
Format :
Audiobook on CD
