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- catalog abstract "Can we rediscover the wildness in Mark Twain's humor? Can we understand how that wildness helped make him a national legend and a key figure in the expression of an American self? In Mark Twain on the Loose, Bruce Michelson writes about Twain as a body of literature, as a public personality, and as a myth. Michelson shows that many of Twain's most ambitious and memorable works, from the very beginning to the end of his career, express a drive for absolute liberation from every social, psychological, and artistic limit. The outrageous and anarchic sides of Twain play a vital role in his art. But these traits are undervalued even by his admirers, who often favor clean shapes and steady affirmations in Twain's writing - not the dangerous comic outbreak, or the deep yearning to free the self from every definition and confinement. Reviewing works from a wide range of Twain's writings, Michelson brings to light those wild dimensions, their literary consequences, and their cultural importance. He reveals this great author as "the best escape artist in the American canon," a reflexive, paradoxical, rule-shattering comic genius.".
- catalog contributor b7830422.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Can we rediscover the wildness in Mark Twain's humor? Can we understand how that wildness helped make him a national legend and a key figure in the expression of an American self? In Mark Twain on the Loose, Bruce Michelson writes about Twain as a body of literature, as a public personality, and as a myth. Michelson shows that many of Twain's most ambitious and memorable works, from the very beginning to the end of his career, express a drive for absolute liberation from every social, psychological, and artistic limit. The outrageous and anarchic sides of Twain play a vital role in his art. But these traits are undervalued even by his admirers, who often favor clean shapes and steady affirmations in Twain's writing - not the dangerous comic outbreak, or the deep yearning to free the self from every definition and confinement.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-264) and index.".
- catalog description "Mark Twain and the Escape from Sense -- Fool's Paradise -- The Quarrel With Romance -- The Wilderness of Ideas.".
- catalog description "Reviewing works from a wide range of Twain's writings, Michelson brings to light those wild dimensions, their literary consequences, and their cultural importance. He reveals this great author as "the best escape artist in the American canon," a reflexive, paradoxical, rule-shattering comic genius.".
- catalog extent "269 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Mark Twain on the loose.".
- catalog identifier "087023966X".
- catalog identifier "0870239678 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Mark Twain on the loose.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press,".
- catalog relation "Mark Twain on the loose.".
- catalog subject "818/.409 20".
- catalog subject "Comic, The, in literature.".
- catalog subject "Group identity in literature.".
- catalog subject "Humorous stories, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "National characteristics, American, in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS1342.A54 M53 1995".
- catalog subject "Self in literature.".
- catalog subject "Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 Knowledge America.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Mark Twain and the Escape from Sense -- Fool's Paradise -- The Quarrel With Romance -- The Wilderness of Ideas.".
- catalog title "Mark Twain on the loose : a comic writer and the American self / Bruce Michelson.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".