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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Twain, Mark, 1835-1910"”.
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MARK TWAIN'S SPEAKING IN THE DARK YEARS (COMMUNICATION, RHETORIC, MOVEMENTS).
This study examines Mark Twain's use of the spoken word in the last decade of his life. It includes Twain's informal readings, his image manipulation and control, his rhetorical speaking, his methods of speech preparation, and his dictation of the autobiography. Twain's use of oral interpretation …
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Mark Twain's thought as revealed in his travel books.
… to study the more prominent ideas expressed by Mark Twain in his travel books, to note the most characteristic thoughts, and to show how his thinking and attitudes changed and deepened as Twain advanced in years. The travel books used in this study are: The Innocents Abroud (1869), "Some …
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The influence of Virginia City on Mark Twain's writings from 1862-1872.
Since 1910, the year of Mark Twain's death, and until the present day, there has been a steady flow of literature which has revealed many aspects of his life and character. This study reveals the significance of Mark Twain's Nevada years. In Nevada it was believed his genius was discovered; there …
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Background and sources of Mark Twain's humor.
… based upon personal experience or environment of Mark Twain; to show that Mark Twain is the best representative of American humor of the period in which he lived; to trace the development and sources of that humor from its earliest start to its culmination in his fifties; and, finally, to show the …
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"A woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised" : an ethical-critical analysis of theological rogues in Mark Twain's personal recollections of Joan of Arc and L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series.
… authors, characters, and readers, focusing on Mark Twain's Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc and L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series. By presenting socially transgressive figures in a sympathetic manner, Twain and Montgomery encourage a reevaluation of cultural and religious …
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The cultural and rhetorical elements of American picaresque
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