LEADER 04128nam 2200589 450 001 9910818028603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7618-6778-3 010 $a0-7618-6421-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000577551 035 $a(EBL)1864061 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001471112 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11780316 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001471112 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11423195 035 $a(PQKB)10593264 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1864061 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1864061 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11024268 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL664136 035 $a(OCoLC)896794268 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000577551 100 $a20150302h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMark Twain $ethe gift of humor /$fHarold H. Kolb Jr 210 1$aLanham, Maryland :$cUniversity Press of America, Inc.,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (518 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7618-6420-2 311 $a1-322-32854-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; I: Introduction; 1 The Shape of a Humorist's Career; A Peculiar Genius; Forty-Five Years as a Serio-Humorist; A Century of Criticism; A Humorist's Self-Definition; II: Toward a Discussion of Humor; 2 The Physics of Humor; I; II; III; IV; 3 The Psychology of Humor; Relaxation; Coping; Aggression; 4 The Sociology of Humor; American Humor; The Morality of Humor; Mark Twain and the Natives, at Home and Abroad; III: Early Years: Comic Creations (1851-1872); 5 The Strategy of Counterpoint; The Apprenticeship of a Humorist 327 $aThe Clash of Contrast and the Stretch of ExaggerationJump-Starting a Career; A Humorist Afloat; The Innocents Abroad; Samson Trimmed, Lightly; Roughing It; 6 Throw in Another Grizzly; I; II; III; IV: Middle Years: The Triumph of Satire (1873-1889); 7 Old Times and New Narrators; "Old Times on the Mississippi"; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; A Joke for John: The Whittier Birthday Speech; Tramping with Twichell; A Turn to History: The Prince and the Pauper; 8 The Non-Example of Bret Harte; I; II; III; 9 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Joke on Jim 327 $aBeyond Jim: The Humor of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn10 Comic Contrast and Violent Humor; Comic and Satiric Contrasts; The Humor of Violence; Satire and Poignancy; 11 The Advocacy of W. D. Howells; I; II; III; IV; V: Later Years: The Humorist as Ironist (1890-1910); 12 The Not-So-Gay Nineties; Busted; A Bankrupt Abroad; Raffish Reviewer; Twain's Twins: Pudd'nhead Wilson; Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc; Gains and Losses; 13 A Subtle Humorist; Recovery; Following the Equator; Vienna and London; Homecoming; Satirist vs. Imperialists; Adam and Eve; The Higher Animals 327 $aThe Christian Science AutocracyShakespeare and the Law; God and Man; Pessimist?; VI: Remnants; 14 Mysterious Strangers; The Texts; Editorial Pain; Symbols, and a Theory, of Despair; 15 An Uncharted Sea of Recollection; Four Twentieth-Century Editions; The Twenty-First Century Definitive Autobiography; "The Right Way to Do an Autobiography"; Appendix; Books by Mark Twain: A Selected List of American Editions Published in His Lifetime; Tales and Sketches; Posthumously Published Works; Sources; Key to Abbreviations; Other Works Cited; Notes; Index 330 $aTwain is America's best known humorous writer, yet many commentators have thought of humor as merely an attractive surface feature of Twain's writings. Kolb shows that humor is at the center of Twain's talent, his successes, and his limitations, and it is as a humorist that he is best understood. 606 $aWit and humor 615 0$aWit and humor. 676 $a818.409 700 $aKolb$b Harold H.$01687126 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818028603321 996 $aMark Twain$94060354 997 $aUNINA