LEADER 03390nam 22005051 450 001 9910164039303321 005 20160907111344.0 010 $a9781501329586 010 $a1501329588 010 $a9781501329562 010 $a1501329561 024 7 $a10.5040/9781501329586 035 $a(CKB)3710000001056188 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4811694 035 $a(OCoLC)958141345 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09260725 035 $a(UtOrBLW)BP9781501329586BC 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001056188 100 $a20170524d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe introspective art of Mark Twain /$fDouglas Anderson 210 1$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (301 pages) $cillustrations (some color) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a9781501329555 311 08$a1501329553 311 08$a9781501329548 311 08$a1501329545 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Thought Experiments -- 1. Inside Excursions -- 2. Interest -- 3. Attention -- 4. Shadings -- Conclusion: Greatnesses in the Brain -- Notes -- Index. 330 $a"The Introspective Art of Mark Twain is a major new assessment of a towering American writer. Seeking to trace the development of Mark Twain's imagination, Douglas Anderson begins near the end, with the long dialogue What Is Man? that Twain published anonymously in 1906. In Twain's view, the little-read What Is Man? lies at the heart of his creative life. It is the central aesthetic testament that he employed to tell the story of his artistic evolution. Beginning there, Anderson follow the contours of that story as it unfolds over Twain's career. The portraits that emerges ranges the full length of Twain's writing life, drawing on his autobiographical and travel writings, essays, letters, and little known works, as well as his monumental works of literature, by now deeply embedded in the world literary canon. "Steer by the river in your head," Mark Twain's master pilot, Horace Bixby, once advised him, when the opaque atmosphere of the outer world made it impossible to see the actual Mississippi through which Twain was trying to guide his steamboat. For the purposes of this book, the river in one's head is not a mental construct of the physical world but the riverine networks of consciousness itself: the river that is the mind. The detailed discussions of individual books that structure each chapter are meant to direct the attention of Mark Twain's students and admirers, through inward rather than outward channels, toward a fuller appreciation for his legacy"--Bloomsbury Publishing. 330 $a"A new reading of the major themes and concerns of Mark Twain's life and work, tracing the development of his imagination from his earliest works in 1865 to his writings in the early twentieth century"--Bloomsbury Publishing. 606 $2Literary theory 676 $a818/.409 700 $aAnderson$b Douglas$f1950-$0592479 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910164039303321 996 $aThe introspective art of Mark Twain$92962291 997 $aUNINA