| Description |
12 audio discs (approximately 720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (ii, 61, ii, 65 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.). |
| Series |
The Great courses |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Performer |
Lectures delivered by Professor Stephen Railton, University of Virginia. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
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In 2 containers (26 cm.). |
| Bibliography |
Course guides include bibliography. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| Added Title |
Life and work of Mark Twain |
| ISBN |
1565855124: $179.95 |
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9781565855120 |
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