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Britton, Wesley A. (Wesley Alan). "Mark Twain: "Cradle Skeptic"." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330830/.
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Critics discussing Mark Twain's early skepticism have, to date, confined their explorations to short studies (articles or book chapters), brief references in passing, or buried their insights in discussions on other topics. Other critics ignore Twain's atheistic statements and see his beliefs as theistic or deterministic. Others ascribe his attitudes in the "dark writings" to late life disappointments. This study demonstrates that Twain's later attitudes towards religion, determinism, social reform and institutions were products of his family heritage, his social environment, and his early reading.
Chapter 1 introduces the major premises of the study, and Chapter 2 reviews the critical background. Chapter 3 discusses the family and hometown influences: on Twain's skeptical thought, and Chapter A discusses Twain's early literary and philosophical influences. Chapter 5 examines Twain's early writings in letters and frontier tales and sketches, showing the development of his anti-religious attitudes. Chapter 6 concludes the study.
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Ryan, Anne Lea. "Speak softly, but carry a big stick Tom Sawyer and Company's quest for linguistic power a sociolinguistic analysis of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Tom Sawyer Abroad /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2010. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.
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O'Conner, Michael Levine. "Mark Twain and the missionary /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9842557.
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Jones, Andrew Cessna. "Exposing romantic folly comic performance in Mark Twain's foreign travel writing /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2009. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.
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Stoneley, Peter Nicholas. "Mark Twain and the feminine aesthetic." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.303569.
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Cordeiro, Mariana Sbaraini. "Mark Twain na "vitrine" de Lobato." Universidade Estadual de Londrina. Centro de Letras e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras, 2005. http://www.bibliotecadigital.uel.br/document/?code=vtls000108455.
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Monteiro Lobato, no período compreendido entre a segunda metade da década de 10 e meados dos anos 20 do século passado, foi uma personalidade destacada no processo de formação do campo literário nacional. É possível perceber sua atuação através do resgate de sua história como escritor e seu papel no contexto editorial brasileiro o que faz surgir mais uma de suas atividades: a de tradutor. Para investigar essa atividade o presente trabalho propõe-se trazer à tona a tradução de Huck Finn feita por ele. Para tal tarefa, a análise de seu trabalho segue as propostas da Teoria da Invisibilidade formulada por Lawrence Venuti que estabelece as diferenças entre tradução domesticadora e estrangeirizadora. Venuti se coloca em defesa desta última por acreditar que ela seria a forma ideal de tradução para que o trabalho do tradutor seja "visível". Os trechos escolhidos para serem analisados são os que representam na escrita a oralidade do dialeto do negro do Missouri na fala do personagem Jim, e também as inserções de expressões coloquiais feitas pelo tradutor quando estas não apareciam na língua-cultura de partida.<br>Monteiro Lobato, in the period understood between the second half of the tens and middles of the twenties of last century, was an outstanding personality in the formation process of the national literary field. It is possible to notice his performance through the rescue of his history as writer and his role in the Brazilian editorial context. This fact was important to emphasize another Lobato's job: the translation. To investigate that activity, the present work intends to come out the book Huck Finn translated by Monteiro Lobato. The analysis of his work follows the Invisibility Theory formulated by Lawrence Venuti who establishes the differences between "domesticating" and "foreignizing" translation. Venuti defends the last one because he believes it would be the ideal form of translation so that the translator's work becomes "visible". The passages which were chosen to be analyzed are the ones where the niggers' dialect from Missouri is spoken by Jim, one of the most important character of the book. The inserts of colloquial expressions used by the translator when they didn't appear in the source language also are analyzed.
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Worthington, Leslie Harper Hitchcock Bert. "Huck Finn rides again reverberations of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the twentieth-century novels of Cormac McCarthy /." Auburn, Ala., 2007. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/EtdRoot/2007/FALL/English/Dissertation/WORTHINGTON_LESLIE_21.pdf.
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Harper, Pamela Evans Foertsch Jacqueline. "Shared spaces the human and the animal in the works of Zora Neale Hurston, Mark Twain, and Jack London /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2008. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-9095.
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Kersten, Holger. "Von Hannibal nach Heidelberg : Mark Twain und die Deutschen : eine Studie zu literarischen und soziokulturellen Quellen eines Deutschlandbildes /." Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb391475449.
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Britton, Wesley A. (Wesley Alan). "The Atheism of Mark Twain: The Early Years." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1986. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500523/.
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Many Twain scholars believe that his skepticism was based on personal tragedies of later years. Others find skepticism in Twain's work as early as The Innocents Abroad. This study determines that Twain's atheism is evident in his earliest writings. Chapter One examines what critics have determined Twain's religious sense to be. These contentions are discussed in light of recent publications and older, often ignored, evidence of Twain' s atheism. Chapter Two is a biographical look at Twain's literary, family, and community influences, and at events in Twain's life to show that his religious antipathy began when he was quite young. Chapter Three examines Twain's early sketches and journalistic squibs to prove that his voice, storytelling techniques, subject matter, and antipathy towards the church and other institutions are clearly manifested in his early writings.
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Reppert, Leta. "A banished Adam Mark Twain and the father of the human race /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5652.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.<br>The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on September 12, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.
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STRONG, WILLIAM FREDERICK. "MARK TWAIN'S SPEAKING IN THE DARK YEARS (COMMUNICATION, RHETORIC, MOVEMENTS)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/188015.
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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 is examined demonstrating the influence of the Reading Tour of 1884-1885. He read informally for personal delight and to edit his works. A large part of the dissertation is devoted to the long history of the Twain persona. Particularly does this study focus on Twain's rhetorical persona and the means by which he attempted to maintain the historical Mark Twain while expanding his role to that of political activist. Using a Burkean perspective, Twain's anti-imperialist rhetoric is analyzed. His private philosophy dictated the use of two ratios. Though he did not successfully defeat the imperialists, he was effective in rallying and unifying the anti-imperialist forces. The final portion of this work investigates Twain's participation in the effective campaign to dethrone Richard Croker and Tammany Hall. Attention is also given to Twain's seventieth birthday speech, and his lecture-like dictation of his autobiography. This dissertation concludes that in his final years Twain found happiness in the spoken word, that mode of communication on which he built his career.
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Crippen, Larry L. (Larry Lee). "Huck, Tom, and No. 44: the Tripartite Twain." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1994. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278563/.
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In this study, I show that three major areas of Mark Twain's personality—conscience, ego, and nonconformist instincts—are represented, in part, respectively by three of his literary creations: Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and No. 44. The origins of Twain's personality which possibly gave rise to his troubled conscience, need for attention, and rebellious spirit are examined. Also, Huck as Twain's social and personal conscience is explored, and similarities between Twain's and Tom's complex egos are demonstrated. No. 44 is featured as symbolic of Twain's iconoclastic, misanthropic, and solipsistic instincts, and the influence of Twain's later personal misfortunes on his creation of No. 44 is explored. In conclusion, I demonstrate the importance of Twain's creative escape and mediating ego in the coping of his personality with reality.
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Heldenfels, Richard D. "Mark Twain and Henry James: Different Americans, Similar Journeys." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1302543053.
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Jenn, Ronald. "La traduction de la rhétorique enfantine chez Mark Twain." Bordeaux 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2004BOR30018.
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Cette étude vise à analyser la traduction de la rhétorique enfantine dans les romans Tom Sawyer et Huckleberry Finn de Mark Twain. L'approche est à la fois descriptive et prescriptive. Elle s'appuie sur la recherche dans divers domaines : études en traduction, histoire du livre et de l'édition, narratologie, linguistique appliquée à la traduction, stylistique, ainsi que sur plus d'un siècle de critique twainienne. Il s'agit d'une approche systémique du champ qui considère les liens que les différentes versions entretiennent avec l'original, mais également les unes avec les autres. Suivant les préceptes d'Antoine Berman, les traducteurs sont appréhendés selon leur 'position', leur 'projet' et leur 'horizon', des notions qui incluent l'ensemble des paramètres historiques, linguistiques, littéraires et culturels qui façonnent leur penser et leur traduire. Un certain nombre d'éléments paratextuels sont analysés afin d'évaluer les versions en terme de lectorat, un aspect important dans le contexte d'œuvres largement perçues comme appartenant à la littérature pour enfants. Les différentes maisons d'édition et les traducteurs sont également définis en terme d'engagement politique le cas échéant. La rhétorique enfantine est un 'sociolecte littéraire' et est une des nombreuses voix qui intègrent la polyphonie de ces romans américains dans leur version originale. Il apparaît que cet aspect a été négligé, aussi bien dans le discours critique que par les traducteurs. La rhétorique enfantine est définie comme reposant sur différents types de discours et un nombre limité de figures : la litote, la comparaison et l'hyperbole<br>This study aims to analyse the translation of child rhetoric in Twain's novels Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. The approach is both descriptive and prescriptive. It is based on findings in the fields of translation studies, the history of book publishing, narratology, linguistics as applied to translation, stylistics, as well as over a century of critical discourse on Twain. The approach of the field is systemic, the different versions being analysed in relation to the original but also in relation to one another. Following Berman's precepts, the translators have been taken into account according to their 'position', 'project' and 'horizon'?these notions that encompass the historical, linguistic, literary and cultural elements that influence the translators' way of thinking and translating. A number of paratextual elements are analysed in order to assess the versions according to their readership. This aspect is crucial in the context of novels which have largely been considered as children's literature. The different publishing houses and translators are also defined in terms of political engagement or lack thereof. Child rhetoric is a 'literary sociolect' and one of the many voices which make up these American novels in their original version. It appears that this aspect has been overlooked by critics as well as by French translators. Child rhetoric has been defined as relying on several different types of discourse and a limited number of figures of speech: litotes (or any way of achieving understatement), simile and hyperbole (or any way of achieving overstatement)
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Meeks, Kathryn Marie. "Mark Twain and Eliza R. Snow: The Innocents Abroad." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6893.
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This thesis will examine the surprising and delightful similarities between Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad (1869) and Eliza R. Snow's letters to the Woman's Exponent published in a book titled Correspondence of Palestine Tourists (1875). Snow traveled abroad from 1872-1873, five years after Twain went abroad in 1867 and three years after The Innocents Abroad was published. She clearly states in her early letters that she was reading Twain and his influence is apparent in her letters. A careful look at her letters will also show that they are not merely an imitation of Twain. Snow takes on a Twainian style to write for her audience, the Latter-day Saint women readers of the Woman's Exponent in Salt Lake City.Reading Snow's letters alongside Twain's The Innocents Abroad is beneficial in understanding the power and influence a popular text can have not only on other texts, but also on how writers describe their personal experiences. Marielle Maco states: 'Works take their place in ordinary life, leaving their marks and exerting a lasting power' 'Ways of Reading, Modes of Being,' 213). The lasting power of Twain's work is clearly shown here in Snow's letters.
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Tromp, Alicia. "Les écrits tardifs de Mark Twain : un corpus illisible ?" Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCC161/document.
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Depuis plusieurs décennies, la critique américaine bouscule les limites traditionnelles du concept de « canon ». Les « grands » auteurs n’ont pas pour autant été congédiés et la notion de canon continue à jouer un rôle central. Ce phénomène double est particulièrement frappant chez Mark Twain. Le corpus illustrant le mieux ce mélange d’hypercanonicité et d’obscurité totale est sans doute celui qui regroupe les textes composés après l’œuvre twainienne canonique par excellence, les célèbres Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : le Twain tardif. Si ces textes sont de plus en plus lus, l’effort d’analyse critique achoppe presque invariablement sur une problématique revenante : celle de leur marginalité ou plus spécifiquement encore, de leur illisibilité. Cette thèse interroge la notion d’illisibilité en conjonction avec la question de la « tardiveté » de ces écrits.L’illisibilité du corpus twainien tardif commence dès l’époque de la rédaction de ces écrits, par une illisibilité dans son acception la plus matérielle et littérale. Cette illisibilité s’accompagnait d’entrée de jeu d’un autre type d’illisibilité, fondé sur le jugement et l’appréciation esthétiques (des textes illisibles car mal écrits). Cette thèse cherche à lire l’illisible, sans pour autant chercher à réhabiliter le corpus, sans même entreprendre de confirmer l’existence pleine de l’objet d’étude choisi, de ce corpus tardif en tant qu’ensemble de textes unifiables à l’intérieur d'une catégorie chronologique close et évidente. Loin d’ignorer l’ennui, l’exaspération et la déception que ces textes ont pu inspirer, il s’agit de problématiser la notion d'illisible<br>Although deconstructed and challenged, the idea of the literary canon seemsto have survived. This ambiguous phenomenon has affected approaches to Mark Twain’swork to a profound degree. The group of texts most aptly illustrating this odd interlacingof hypercanonicity and complete obscurity is that which follows Huckleberry Finn : thelater writings of Twain. These texts invariably call up the question of their marginalityand their unreadability. Why were they left unread for so many years, and why do theycontinue to be so marginal, when compared to the immense success of the Adventures ?Can some of the manuscripts be salvaged by means of certain literary approaches and atspecific times in the history of aesthetic moods ? This PhD on Twain’s later writingsaims to explore the idea of unreadability by combining it with theoretical and criticalaccounts of lateness. « Unreadability » as a central notion to Twain’s later work startswith the most material and literal meaning of the word – that which cannot be read – andbegan as early as the moment of composition of these texts : many manuscripts remainedunpublished, incomplete, or were rejected by the publishers Twain approached. Thisillegibility combined with the texts’ frequently decried unreadability. The aim of this PhDis to read late Twain without necessarily attempting to rehabilitate these texts, withouteven confirming the full existence of the idea of « late » Twain. Instead of ignoring theexasperation and disappointment many critics and readers have experienced, this thesiswill attempt to work with this unreadability, but not without questioning and redefiningthe notion of unreadability and its contraries
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Veach, Tammy F. "Suppression, repression, and expression : Black anger in Huckleberry Finn, Pudd'nhead Wilson, and The marrow of tradition /." View online, 1988. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211998882540.pdf.
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Wienandt, Christopher. "Mark Twain, Nevada Frontier Journalism, and the "Territorial Enterprise" : Crisis in Credibility." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278247/.
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This dissertation is an attempt to give a picture of the Nevada frontier journalist Samuel L. Clemens and the surroundings in which he worked. It is also an assessment of the extent to which Clemens (and his alter ego Twain) can be considered a serious journalist and the extent to which he violated the very principles he championed.
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Haynes, Alexis. "Mark Twain, travel, and transnationalism : relocating American literature, 1866-1910." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439758.
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Knapp, Peter John. "The war prayer : a dramatic setting of Mark Twain's text /." Connect to this title online, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1102529382.
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Wikman, Hannes. "Racism, Mark Twain and Close Reading in the English Language Classroom." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-83604.
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This essay argues that Mark Twain’s novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Pudd’nhead Wilson can be applied in Swedish upper secondary schools to address racial inequality in the purpose of achieving intercultural competence and understanding. Racism is a vast issue, evident in both schools and in our society, locally as well as globally, where ethnical minorities are abused or disfavored societal privileges. This leaves teachers with the vital task of counteracting racism in classrooms, in accordance with the educational goals of imparting democratic values. The essay is conducted through a Close Reading, which is beneficial in exposing a text’s complexity by examining its literary aspects. The primary focus from the Close Reading is put on narration and its subordinate categories. Word choice, repetition or metaphors are highlighted and analyzed from the selected passages as they are literary aspects that the students can react to and further discuss in relation to racism in their everyday lives. The findings show that Twain’s ways of narrating racism and stimulating empathy are integral features in promoting an increased understanding to meet the curriculum’s requirements.
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Laughlin, Ronnee. "Second change order at Mark Twain Elementary an action research study /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6055.
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Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.<br>The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on June 19, 2009) Includes bibliographical references.
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Simpson, Richard. "How to Tell a Story: Mark Twain and the Short Story Genre." TopSCHOLAR®, 2007. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/378.
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This study examines the short fiction of Mark Twain in relation to major theories concerning the short story genre. Despite his popularity as a novelist and historical figure, Twain has not been recognized as a major figure in the development of the short story genre. This study attempts to show that the short fiction produced by Twain deserves greater regard within studies specific to the short story, and calls for a reconsideration of Twain as a dynamic figure in the development of the genre. The introductory chapter lays the groundwork for understanding how the short story genre has developed since its inception as an actual literary genre, and outlines the existing Twain scholarship concerning his short fiction. Differences between the traditional and modern forms of the short story are defined, and Twain's chronological position in the evolution of the genre is briefly explained. Chapter one examines two of Twain's short stories—"The $30,000 Bequest" and "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg"—in relation to the compositional theories of the first major short story theorist: Edgar Allan Poe. This chapter shows how these two Twain stories abide by Poe's rules concerning unity of effect. Chapter two explores Twain's "Journalism in Tennessee" and "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" in relation to the modern short story, and examines these two stories through the lens of Mikhail Bakhtin's theories of genre. This chapter closely examines Twain's use of various dialects to show that these two stories contain an unrealized complexity and are very closely related to the ostensibly "plotless" short fiction that developed in the twentieth century. The final chapter takes Twain's "The Mysterious Stranger" and examines it with respect to both old and new theories of the short story genre. This chapter shows how "The Mysterious Stranger" fuses both traditional and modern forms of the short story genre. The conclusion to this chapter reiterates the argument for a greater appreciation of Twain as a short story artist.
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Kim, Hyejin. "The Gothic as counter-discourse : Mark Twain, Charles Chesnutt and Toni Morrison." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001952.
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Kehlenbach, Emil Stefan. "The Boss's Dilemma: Mark Twain and the Relation of Technology and Society." Thesis, Boston College, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2597.
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Thesis advisor: Susan M. Shell<br>Mark Twain's understanding of the relationship between technology and society is complicated, and delivered through many of his individual works, including A Connecticut Yankee and The American Claimant. Through a close reading of Connecticut Yankee with additional support from The American Claimant I am to develop a fuller understanding of this relationship and how Twain's thought reflects on modern society<br>Thesis (MA) — Boston College, 2012<br>Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences<br>Discipline: Political Science
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Smith-Stewart, Bonnyeclaire. "Front Doors-Back Doors: The Hypocrisy of Mark Twain Towards His Servants." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2015. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/2966.
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This study is a historical examination of the attitude and behavior of Mark Twain (also known as Samuel Langhorne Clemens) in his relationship with his household servants during the Gilded Age (1870-1900) in Hartford, Connecticut. "Gilded Age" was coined by Twain in a satirical expose of the corrupt greed in business and politics. Twain suggested dishonesty was disguised beneath a thin golden veil of American propaganda. This period of self-elevation and lavish wealth was contrasted against a poor unskilled working class. Twain, who evolved from lower rungs of society to fortuned heights, makes an ideal study for hypocrisy. Serving as a symbol of the times, this investigation explores his ability to rise above or to succumb to the predisposed mentality of the day. Further, the same biases of class, race, and gender continue to be unresolved issues today in an inviolate hypocritical system of privilege, gilded by wording in a duplicitous Constitution.
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Stangherlin, Nicholas <1981>. "A Connecticut Yankee in utopia: Mark Twain between past, present and future." Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/10291.
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La presente tesi analizza A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court ed altre opere tarde di Mark Twain con lo scopo di dimostrare come questi testi continuino ad avere rilevanza dal punto di vista contenutistico e stilistico. L’obiettivo principale è quello di presentare A Connecticut Yankee come un testo che da un lato cattura perfettamente lo spirito del proprio tempo e dall’altro, paradossalmente, resiste alle ideologie dominanti. A Connecticut Yankee viene messo in relazione con la letteratura utopica delle ultime decadi del XIX secolo con l’obiettivo di contestualizzarlo all’interno di questo genere. Trasposizione temporale, sperimentazione sociale, progresso e industrializzazione sono i temi e i fenomeni storici che plasmano questo genere in generale ed il romanzo di Twain in particolare. Tuttavia, si dimostrerà come il testo di Twain sia capace di trascendere i limiti della didatticità intrinseca in questo genere ed offrire una critica delle tendenze che lo dominano.
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Ruwe, Michael J. "It's a big old goofy world view : John Prine as a modern-day Mark Twain /." Electronic version (PDF), 2005. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2005/ruwem/michaelruwe.pdf.
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Louis-Dimitrov, Delphine. "L'écriture de l'histoire dans l'oeuvre de Mark Twain : un imaginaire de la trace." Thesis, Paris 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA030057.
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Cette thèse se donne pour enjeu de redéfinir l'identité littéraire de Mark Twain dans son articulation avec l'histoire. Clef de voûte de la mythologie nationale qui donne forme à l'identité américaine, le motif de la trace devient chez Twain un principe d'écriture où s'exprime une conscience historique dissidente. La réappropriation progressive de ce paradigme subvertit les représentations collectives pour définir une compréhension singulière de l'historicité de la nation et du devenir individuel. L'opposition entre la trace mnésique, inscription de l'histoire dans la profondeur du lieu, et la trace prospective, ébauche d'un tracé nouveau, structure dès l'origine les représentations symboliques de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Continent. À ces deux modalités de l'inscription correspondent chez Twain deux formes d'historicité, la stase et le progrès, et deux régimes politiques, la monarchie et la démocratie. Or son écriture subvertit cette polarité symbolique en dénonçant la stratification de l'histoire américaine, symptôme d'une dérive monarchique due à la perte des origines fondatrices de la nation. Se définit dès lors une économie historique où la trace des origines de la nation se révèle habitée par un régime de perte qui contamine quiconque cherche à les capter, tandis que le déterminisme des origines individuelles impose l'idée d'une fermeture de l'histoire. À l'emprise mortifère de la trace, l'écriture de Twain oppose l'utopie de la non-inscription, principe d'une sortie de l'histoire et d'une coïncidence retrouvée avec l'origine. La résurgence de tensions irrésolues dans les textes tardifs convertit cependant cette utopie en mise en scène de l'abolition de l'histoire<br>: This thesis aims at redefining Mark Twain's literary identity in its articulation with history. The motif of the trace, which stands at the core of the national mythology that shapes American identity, is in Twain a writing principle expressing a dissident historical consciousness. The progressive reappropriation of this paradigm subverts collective representations and defines a singular apprehension of national and individual historicity. The opposition between the mnesic trace—which inscribes history into a place—and the prospective one—the starting point of a new tracing—lies at the root of the symbolical representations of the Old and the New Continents. In Twain's writings, these two forms of inscription correspond to two opposite modes of historicity—stasis and progress—and two political regimes—monarchy and democracy. Twain nevertheless subverts this symbolical polarity by revealing the stratification of American history. He thereby hints at a drift towards monarchy that results from the loss of the nation's founding principles. His fiction thus defines a historical economy in which the traces of the nation's origins appear to be inhabited by a principle of loss that may contaminate whoever attempts to appropriate them. The determinism of individual origins meanwhile suggests the closing down of history. To the deadly hold of the trace, his writings oppose the utopia of non- inscription – the principle of an escape from history and of a renewed coincidence with the origins. Yet the resurgence of unsolved tensions in Twain's late works converts the utopia into the staging of the abolition of history
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Cundick, Bryce M. "Translating Huck : difficulties in adapting The adventures of Huckleberry Finn to film /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd765.pdf.
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Terry, Natalie Ann Fulton Joe B. ""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 /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5149.
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Boren, Holly Lynn. "The American claimant theme in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James and Mark Twain." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286386.
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Schwartz, Samuel Robin. "The Artificial Yankee: Invention, Aesthetics, and Violence in American Literature and Technology." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194687.
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This project considers the objective and material manifestations of invention, as well as the subjective processes (creative and mechanical) that invention signifies, in order to examine the historical, aesthetic, and ideological roles that invention plays within American literature. I argue that invention calls attention to a paradox within American culture that literary texts are especially adept at revealing: the newness that invention fetishizes often contains a violent underside, which American literary authors both depict and complicate. In chapter 1 I establish the project's foundation--how invention became such a culturally prominent mode of action, and how inventions came to symbolize the march of American "progress." I treat the rhetoric of invention as a text which can be close-read for what it reveals about the role of American artifice in the nation's self-conception.In chapter two I argue that Herman Melville's Typee delivers a series of inventive counter-narratives that disarm the stereotypes that support colonization, and that deflate the sense of superiority that propelled Western colonialism. Using the rhetoric of invention against itself, including its portrayal of patents and intellectual property as necessary regulative mechanisms in the advancement of technology and industry, Typee undermines this logic by tapping into the subversive potential of invention as a creative force.Chapter two examines the various historical, aesthetic and disciplinary roles played by a specific American invention: the world's first automatic weapon. Arguing that its power to subdue crowds was due more to its cultural status than its actual use, I examine the paradox presented by a weapon like the Gatling gun and its depiction in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee: that its elegant appearance and functionality, as well as the latency of the threat it posed, was a power that operated by taking advantage of aesthetic perception. The project's final chapter investigates the poetry and prose of Ezra Pound and Mina Loy for the enthusiasm it registers for, as Pound phrased it, "Machine Art." I argue that the formal invention that drove modernism cannot be divorced from the prominence of mechanical invention that American industry made prominent through the turn of the century.
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Harper, Pamela Evans. "Shared Spaces: The Human and the Animal in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston, Mark Twain, and Jack London." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9095/.
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Living in tune with nature means respecting the natural environment and realizing its power and the ways it manifests in daily life. This essay focuses on the ways in which respect for nature is expressed through animal imagery in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Mark Twain's "The Stolen White Elephant," Roughing It, and Pudd'nhead Wilson, and Jack London's The Call of the Wild. Each author encouraged readers to seek the benefits of nature in order to become better human beings, forge stronger communities, and develop a more unified nation and world. By learning from the positive example of the animals, we learn how to share our world with them and with each other.
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Charvet, Mignon. "Death by Design: Giving Life to Mark Twain’s Posthumous Success, Is He Dead?" ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1583.
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The following thesis documents the costume design process and execution for the staged production of Mark Twain’s Is He Dead? as adapted by David Ives. It was produced at the University of New Orleans as part of the Film, Theatre, and Communication Arts Department 2011-2012 season in collaboration with New Orleans theatre company, The NOLA Project.
In conjunction with the director and the design team, it is the role of the costume designer to support the overall concept of the production. The documentation of this process begins with the textual, historical, and visual research pertaining to the design concept. The various aspects of the costume design process are presented leading up to the execution of the final designs and successful realization of the play, concluding with a final analysis of the work. Supporting visual documentation and sources used to illustrate the phases of design are contained within the subsequent appendices.
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Zhou, Bo. "Application of hyperspectral remote sensing in detecting and mapping Sericea lespedeza in Missouri." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5051.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.<br>The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on November 9, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.
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Götz, Hanna Betina. "Análise descritiva das traduções para o português brasileiro do Diary of Adam and Eve, de Mark Twain." Florianópolis, SC, 2011. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/94960.
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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução, Florianópolis, 2011<br>Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-25T18:34:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0<br>Com o intuito de entender as razões por que o Diary of Adam and Eve, de Mark Twain, teve baixa repercussão entre o público leitor brasileiro, três traduções do Diary of Adam and Eve para o português brasileiro foram examinadas. Apoiado nas teorias de análise descritiva, dos polissitemas, do Patronage e da Time and Place Tradition, e, principalmente, pela análise das normas preliminares, de macroestrutura e de microestrutura do texto no original, em língua inglesa e nos textos em português brasileiro, descobriu-se que não há grande variação linguística e estilística entre as traduções. Provavelmente as três traduções são, na verdade, uma só. São semelhantes no estilo, nas decisões e escolhas linguísticas, como supressões de frases, exotização, achatamento e domesticação de passagens inteiras, e semelhantes também na estruturação do texto. A estrutura e ordenamento das diversas partes do texto é a mesma em todas as versões traduzidas, que por sua vez, diferem da versão em língua inglesa. Por isso, suspeita-se que as editoras responsáveis pelas publicações no Brasil utilizaram uma mesma versão traduzida, a qual foi apenas revisada, atualizada e adaptava, sem, sequer, serem transparentes quanto ao ano de publicação ou ao autor da tradução. Em algumas, apenas mencionam o ano de publicação e não o tradutor. Noutras, o tradutor é mencionado, mas não o ano de lançamento. A partir dessas constatações, este estudo questiona inclusive a autoria das traduções. Suspeita-se que os diversos tradutores, alguns deles sequer mencionados, atuaram, na verdade, como revisores e adaptadores de uma mesma matriz já traduzida. Essa falta de transparência para com o leitor foi identificada neste estudo, como imbróglio de editoras. Concluímos que a baixa recepção do texto em solo nacional está diretamente relacionada a esses fatores. As decisões de relançamento da obra, sempre de novo, parecem estar mais relacionadas ao fato de as editoras terem em mãos um patrimônio, que para gerar lucro, deveria circular, do que com a qualidade de cada uma das edições. A preocupação com o fato de as edições anteriores terem tido baixa recepção entre o público brasileiro parece ter sido apenas secundária.
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Bensalah, Nouria. "Les "Slave narratives" dans "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" de Mark Twain : les enjeux d'une intertextualité diverse." Paris 8, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA082915.
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Le sujet de la thèse porte sur les liens intertextuels entre "Les Aventures d'Huckleberry Finn" de Mark Twain et les "slave narratives" ou récits d' (ex-) esclaves. C'est une étude du récit de l'esclave dans le roman de Mark Twain et de sa fonction dans le travail intertextuel. Cette étude porte essentiellement sur : 1- l'intertextualité comme effet de l'écriture (le récit de Jim – l'esclave – et sa fonction dans le travail intertextuel) ; 2- l'intertextualité comique (il s'agit d'une observation des réécritures comiques, voire parodiques de certaines traditions propres aux "slave narratives" ou récits d' (ex-) esclaves ; 3- l'intertextualité et la modernité des "Aventures de Huckleberry Finn" (comment l'intertextualité est une force de liaison et de modernisation dans le roman de Mark Twain)<br>The thesis is a study of intertextuality : the presence and the different functions of slave narratives in Mark Twain's novel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". We propose in this study an observation of : 1- the function of Jim's narratives (as a slave narrative) in the novel (in the intertextuality) ; 2- parody of slave narratives in "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (the comic versions of certain traditions and scenes in slave narratives) ; slave narratives and the modernity of Mark Twain's book
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Barrow, William David 1955. "Orality, Literacy, and Heroism in Huckleberry Finn." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1986. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500929/.
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This work re-assesses the heroic character of Huckleberry Finn in light of the inherent problems of discourse. Walter Ong's insights into the differences between oral and literate consciousnesses, and Stanley Fish's concept of "interpretive communities" are applied to Huck's interactions with the other characters, revealing the underlying dynamic of his character, the need for a viable discourse community. Further established, by enlisting the ideas of Ernest Becker, is that this need for community finds its source in the most fundamental human problem, the consciousness of death. The study concludes that the problematic ending of Twain's novel is consistent with the theme of community and is neither the artistic failure, nor the cynical pronouncement on the human race that so many critics have seen it to be.
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Marques, Raquel Tavares Gonçalves Branco, Maria Teresa Castilho, Nicolas Hurst, and Simone Auf der Maur Tomé. "Anatomia da América em Adventures of Huckleberry Finn de Mark Twain : representações urbanas na demanda do ideal pastoril." Master's thesis, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/20403.
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Marques, Raquel Tavares Gonçalves Branco, Maria Teresa Castilho, Nicolas Hurst, and Simone Auf der Maur Tomé. "Anatomia da América em Adventures of Huckleberry Finn de Mark Twain : representações urbanas na demanda do ideal pastoril." Dissertação, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 2009. http://aleph.letras.up.pt/F?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=000196608.
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Huber, Kate. "Transnational Translation: Foreign Language in the Travel Writing of Cooper, Melville, and Twain." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/216589.
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English<br>Ph.D.<br>This dissertation examines the representation of foreign language in nineteenth-century American travel writing, analyzing how authors conceptualize the act of translation as they address the multilingualism encountered abroad. The three major figures in this study--James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain--all use moments of cross-cultural contact and transference to theorize the permeability of the language barrier, seeking a mean between the oversimplification of the translator's task and a capitulation to the utter incomprehensibility of the Other. These moments of translation contribute to a complex interplay of not only linguistic but also cultural and economic exchange. Charting the changes in American travel to both the "civilized" world of Europe and the "savage" lands of the Southern and Eastern hemispheres, this project will examine the attitudes of cosmopolitanism and colonialism that distinguished Western from non-Western travel at the beginning of the century and then demonstrate how the once distinct representations of European and non-European languages converge by the century's end, with the result that all kinds of linguistic difference are viewed as either too easily translatable or utterly incomprehensible. Integrating the histories of cosmopolitanism and imperialism, my study of the representation of foreign language in travel writing demonstrates that both the compulsion to translate and a capitulation to incomprehensibility prove equally antagonistic to cultural difference. By mapping the changing conventions of translation through the representative narratives of three canonical figures, "Transnational Translation" traces a shift in American attitudes toward the foreign as the cosmopolitanism of Cooper and Melville transforms into Twain's attitude of both cultural and linguistic nationalism.<br>Temple University--Theses
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Doca, Heloisa Helou [UNESP]. "Mark Twain: um patriota antiimperialista e seu relato de viagem em The innocents abroad or the new pilgrim's progress." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103677.
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doca_hh_dr_assis.pdf: 8916292 bytes, checksum: 8f6acbb180aa070c368f83b1ea070b0a (MD5)<br>A leitura cuidadosa do texto do Tratado de Paris, em 1900, leva Mark Twain a concluir que a intenção política norte-americana era, claramente, a de subjugação. Declara-se, abertamente, antiimperialista nesse momento, apesar das inúmeras críticas recebidas por antagonistas políticos que defendiam o establishment dos Estados Unidos. Após viajar para a Europa e Oriente, em 1867, como correspondente do jornal Daily Alta Califórnia, Mark Twain publica, em 1869, seu relato de viagem, The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrim's Progress. Nosso estudo demonstra que o autor, apesar das diversas máscaras usadas em seus relatos, narra histórias, culturas e tradições, tanto da Europa quanto do Oriente, já com os olhos bem abertos pelo viés antiimperialista. Faz uso da paródia, sátira, ironia e humor para dessacralizar impérios, monarcas e a Igreja que subjugavam os mais fracos, iluminando, desde então, os estudos sobre culturas. O primeiro capítulo de nosso estudo enfoca os problemas que a Literatura Comparada enfrenta face à globalização, descolonização e democratização, norteado pelo Relatório Bernheimer, como também faz uma reflexão sobre cultura, tradição e o olhar do viajante, justificando o olhar do narrador de The Innocents Abroad. Como pressupostos teóricos, usamos autores como Eliot, Edward Said, Todorov, Foucault, dentre outros. O capítulo subseqüente traz o histórico sobre como se procedeu o ideário antiimperialista de Mark Twain, além de uma abordagem geral em algumas de suas obras. Nosso próximo passo trata do inocente relato twainiano, dando uma compreensão maior ao leitor de como foi feita a colonização norte-americana, como a personagem burlesca é construída e também demonstra o modo como as ilustrações do livro foram delineadas. Encerramos nosso estudo balizando os entrechos de toda a expedição twainiana, que trazem à luz sua posição contra impérios.<br>The careful reading of the Trait of Paris, in 1900, leads Mark Twain to conclude that America intended policy was clearly one of subjugation. He frankly declares himself an anti-imperialist at that time, notwithstanding the several criticisms he had received from political antagonists who had been defending the United States establishment for a long time. Having traveled to Europe and to the East in 1867 as the Daily Alta California's newspaper correspondent, Mark Twain edits, in 1869, his travel report, The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrim's Progress. Our study demonstrates that the author, in spite of using different masks in his reports, narrates histories, cultures and traditions from both Europe and the East with his point of view imbued by his anti-imperialistic ideal. By using in his texts parody, satire, irony and humor to desacralize empires, monarchs, and the Church that had been subjugating the weaker since the Old Age, he highlights, indeed, the cultural studies. The first chapter of our study focuses on Comparative Literature problems, face to globalization, decolonization and democratization, ruled by the Bernheimer Report. It also reflects on themes as culture, tradition and the traveler point of view, justifying the narrator innocent point of view in his report. For theorical support we've concentrated on Eliot, Said, Todorov, Foucault's among others. Subsequently, our study brings up Mark Twain's anti-imperialism way as a general approach to his work. Our next step is focused on the American colonization, and then we demonstrate how Mark Twain created his travel report as a burlesque character and also the way the illustrations of the book were drawn. Finally, we enclose our study highlighting several fragments of The Innocents Abroad that clearly demonstrate Mark Twain's position against empires.
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Doca, Heloisa Helou. "Mark Twain : um patriota antiimperialista e seu relato de viagem em The innocents abroad or the new pilgrim's progress /." Assis : [s.n.], 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103677.
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Orientador: Luiz Roberto Velloso Cairo<br>Banca: Luíz Angélico da Costa<br>Banca: Cleide Antonia Rapucci<br>Banca: Sérgio Augusto Zanoto<br>Banca: Cecília Guirado<br>Resumo: A leitura cuidadosa do texto do "Tratado de Paris", em 1900, leva Mark Twain a concluir que a intenção política norte-americana era, claramente, a de subjugação. Declara-se, abertamente, antiimperialista nesse momento, apesar das inúmeras críticas recebidas por antagonistas políticos que defendiam o establishment dos Estados Unidos. Após viajar para a Europa e Oriente, em 1867, como correspondente do jornal Daily Alta Califórnia, Mark Twain publica, em 1869, seu relato de viagem, The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrim's Progress. Nosso estudo demonstra que o autor, apesar das diversas máscaras usadas em seus relatos, narra histórias, culturas e tradições, tanto da Europa quanto do Oriente, já com os olhos bem abertos pelo viés antiimperialista. Faz uso da paródia, sátira, ironia e humor para dessacralizar impérios, monarcas e a Igreja que subjugavam os mais fracos, iluminando, desde então, os estudos sobre culturas. O primeiro capítulo de nosso estudo enfoca os problemas que a Literatura Comparada enfrenta face à globalização, descolonização e democratização, norteado pelo Relatório Bernheimer, como também faz uma reflexão sobre cultura, tradição e o olhar do viajante, justificando o olhar do narrador de The Innocents Abroad. Como pressupostos teóricos, usamos autores como Eliot, Edward Said, Todorov, Foucault, dentre outros. O capítulo subseqüente traz o histórico sobre como se procedeu o ideário antiimperialista de Mark Twain, além de uma abordagem geral em algumas de suas obras. Nosso próximo passo trata do "inocente relato" twainiano, dando uma compreensão maior ao leitor de como foi feita a colonização norte-americana, como a personagem burlesca é construída e também demonstra o modo como as ilustrações do livro foram delineadas. Encerramos nosso estudo balizando os entrechos de toda a expedição twainiana, que trazem à luz sua posição contra impérios.<br>Abstract: The careful reading of the "Trait of Paris", in 1900, leads Mark Twain to conclude that America intended policy was clearly one of subjugation. He frankly declares himself an anti-imperialist at that time, notwithstanding the several criticisms he had received from political antagonists who had been defending the United States establishment for a long time. Having traveled to Europe and to the East in 1867 as the Daily Alta California's newspaper correspondent, Mark Twain edits, in 1869, his travel report, The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrim's Progress. Our study demonstrates that the author, in spite of using different masks in his reports, narrates histories, cultures and traditions from both Europe and the East with his point of view imbued by his anti-imperialistic ideal. By using in his texts parody, satire, irony and humor to desacralize empires, monarchs, and the Church that had been subjugating the weaker since the Old Age, he highlights, indeed, the cultural studies. The first chapter of our study focuses on Comparative Literature problems, face to globalization, decolonization and democratization, ruled by the Bernheimer Report. It also reflects on themes as culture, tradition and the traveler point of view, justifying the narrator "innocent point of view" in his report. For theorical support we've concentrated on Eliot, Said, Todorov, Foucault's among others. Subsequently, our study brings up Mark Twain's anti-imperialism way as a general approach to his work. Our next step is focused on the American colonization, and then we demonstrate how Mark Twain created his travel report as a burlesque character and also the way the illustrations of the book were drawn. Finally, we enclose our study highlighting several fragments of The Innocents Abroad that clearly demonstrate Mark Twain's position against empires.<br>Doutor
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Tovar, Marlene. "An Unreceptive Audience: The Mixed Receptions of Mark Twain's and J.D.Salinger's Novels in the 1950s and 1960s." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3545.
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This thesis examines how the sociopolitical contexts of the mid-twentieth century influenced readers’ interpretations of Mark Twain’s novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye,” two controversial novels that were subjected to censorship activity. In particular, this thesis will focus on the reception of both of these novels during the 1950s and 1960s, a period marked by two major events: The Civil Rights Movement and the youth counterculture phenomenon. In this study, the reception of “Huckleberry Finn” will be analyzed in the context of the civil rights movement, using news articles published in the 1950s and 1960s to illustrate how the different interpretations of readers prompted school board directors to ban the book from junior high and high school reading lists.
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Burbridge, Joshua D. Flader Susan Pasley Jeffrey L. "The veering path of progress politics, race, and consensus in the north St. Louis Mark Twain Expressway fight, 1950-1956 /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6472.
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Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on Feb 17, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Thesis advisor: Dr. Susan Flader and Dr. Jeffrey L. Pasley. Includes bibliographical references.
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Abaurre, Maria Luiza Marques. "A materia de Bretanha no seculo XIX : Alfred Tennyson e Mack Twain na corte do rei Arthur." [s.n.], 1993. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270000.
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Base IEL resumo: Leitura comparativa de duas refacções da matéria de Bretanha produzidas no século XIX: Idylls of the King, de Alfred Tennyson, e A Connecticut Yankec in King Arthur's Court, de Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain). O interesse em um estudo comparativo das duas obras é grande, uma vez que, tendo utilizado o mesmo texto como fonte básica para suas refacções - Le Morte D'Arthur (Thomas Malory) -, Tennyson e Clemens produziram obras profundamente diferentes, tanto na abordagem quanto no tratamento da matéria de Bretanha. Da comparação feita entre as alterações promovidas por um e outro autor, ao trabalharem com o texto de Malory, é delineado um interessante quadro histórico-social, bem como são levantadas algumas hipóteses relativas à manutenção do interesse literário por histórias de natureza arturiana<br>Abstract: Not informed.<br>Mestrado<br>Teoria Literaria<br>Mestre em Letras
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ZHANG, HENG. "A Journey of Racial Neutrality : the symbolic meaning of the Mississippi in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-5894.
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Kassam, Hamada. "Writing the flush times : The Southwestern humorists, their literary and political contexts and their impact on the work of Mark Twain." Thesis, University of Essex, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517182.
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