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Title:

Mark Twain's short stories / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Publisher:

Bloom's Literary Criticism,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

vii, 166 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Twain, Mark,--1835-1910--Criticism and interpretation.
Humorous stories, American--History and criticism.
Short story.

Other Authors:

Bloom, Harold.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Of detectives and their derring-do : the genesis of Mark Twain's "The stolen white elephant" -- "Hadleyburg" : Mark Twain's dual attack on banal theology and banal literature -- Levity and gravity in Twain : the bipolar dynamics of the early tales -- Merry tales and The £1,000,000 bank-note and other new stories -- Poe, Twain, and the nature of conscience -- A vernacular tale of bohemia : Jim Smiley and his jumping frog -- Mark Twain's short fiction -- Mark Twain's deformed conscience -- Transvestite tales -- The relationship between temperament and training : social ideology in "The man who corrupted Hadleyburg".

Series:

Bloom's modern critical interpretations

ISBN:

1604132744
9781604132748

LCCN:

2011012812

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)