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A Companion to Mark Twain [[electronic resource]]
| A Companion to Mark Twain [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Messent Peter |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (590 p.) |
| Disciplina |
818.409
818/.409 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | BuddLouis J |
| Collana | Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
| Soggetto topico |
Twain, Mark - Criticism and interpretation
Twain, Mark English American Literature Languages & Literatures |
| ISBN |
0-9968701-9-9
1-78268-615-0 1-280-28615-6 9786610286157 1-4051-6508-1 0-470-99687-0 1-4051-5219-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
A COMPANION TO MARK TWAIN; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Note on Referencing; Acknowledgments; PART I The Cultural Context; 1 Mark Twain and Nation; 2 Mark Twain and Human Nature; 3 Mark Twain and America's Christian Mission Abroad; 4 Mark Twain and Whiteness; 5 Mark Twain and Gender; 6 Twain and Modernity; 7 Mark Twain and Politics; 8 "The State, it is I": Mark Twain, Imperialism, and the New Americanists; PART II Mark Twain and Others; 9 Twain, Language, and the Southern Humorists; 10 The "American Dickens": Mark Twain and Charles Dickens; 11 Nevada Influences on Mark Twain
12 The Twain-Cable Combination13 Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Realism; PART III Mark Twain: Publishing and Performing; 14 "I don't know A from B": Mark Twain and Orality; 15 Mark Twain and the Profession of Writing; 16 Mark Twain and the Promise and Problems of Magazines; 17 Mark Twain and the Stage; 18 Mark Twain on the Screen; PART IV Mark Twain and Travel; 19 Twain and the Mississippi; 20 Mark Twain and the Literary Construction of the American West; 21 Mark Twain and Continental Europe; 22 Mark Twain and Travel Writing; PART V Mark Twain's Fiction; 23 Mark Twain's Short Fiction 24 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Prince and the Pauper as Juvenile Literature25 Plotting and Narrating "Huck"; 26 Going to Tom's Hell in Huckleberry Finn; 27 History, "Civilization," and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; 28 Mark Twain's Dialects; 29 Killing Half A Dog, Half A Novel: The Trouble With The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and The Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins; 30 Dreaming Better Dreams: The Late Writing of Mark Twain; PART VI Mark Twain's Humor; 31 Mark Twain's Visual Humor; 32 Mark Twain and Post-Civil War Humor; 33 Mark Twain and Amiable Humor 34 Mark Twain and the Enigmas of WitPART VII A Retrospective; 35 The State of Mark Twain Studies; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910271029703321 |
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The Crime Fiction Handbook [[electronic resource]]
| The Crime Fiction Handbook [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Messent Peter |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, : Wiley, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.3872 |
| Collana | Blackwell Literature Handbooks |
| Soggetto topico |
Detective and mystery stories - History and criticism
Detective and mystery stories, American - History and criticism Detective and mystery stories, English - History and criticism Detective and mystery stories, Swedish - History and criticism Languages & Literatures Literature - General |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-299-15787-4
1-118-32653-9 1-118-32654-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
THE CRIME FICTION HANDBOOK; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introductory Note; Part 1: Introduction; Part 2: The Politics, Main Forms, and Key Concerns of Crime Fiction; The Politics of Crime Fiction; The Types of Crime Fiction; Classical Detective Fiction; Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction; The Police Novel; Transgressor Narratives; Vision, Supervision, and the City; Crime and the Body; Gender Matters; Representations of Race; Part 3: Some KeyWorks in Crime Fiction; Edgar Allan Poe: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841); Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sign of Four (1890)
Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon (1930); Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep (1939); James M. Cain: Double Indemnity (1936); Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955); Chester Himes: Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965); Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö: The Laughing Policeman (1968); James Ellroy: The Black Dahlia (1987); Thomas Harris: The Silence of the Lambs (1988); Patricia Cornwell: Unnatural Exposure (1997); Ian Rankin: The Naming of the Dead (2006); Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005); End Note; References; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463140503321 |
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Messent Peter
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| Hoboken, : Wiley, 2012 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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