...Michelle Robinson This essay argues that by studying parodies of detective fiction from the turn of the twentieth century, one can envision a more complete history of the detective genre's development and the alternate paths it might have pursued. Mark Twain's A Double‐Barrelled Detective Story...

... .” Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 27 ( October 1996 ): 307 - 313 . Stahl J.D. “ Mark Twain, Master Satirist .” Five Owls 18.4 ( 2006 ): 94 - 95 . ---. “ Satire and the Evolution of Perspective in Children’s Literature: Mark Twain, E.B. White, and Louise Fitzhugh...

... that most critiques will be based on the applicability of her thesis to other cases. For instance, early on she mentions Mark Twain’s Huck Finn as representative of the innocence of white childhood even though his “bad boy” status at first might seem to complicate such a designation. As a popular text...

..., 1680–1730 . Amsterdam : Prometheus/Bert Bakker . Blackhawk Ned . 2010 . “The Indigenous West of Mark Twain.” Billington Lecture . Huntington Library , San Marino, CA . Chapman Anne . 2010 . European Encounters with the Yamana People of Cape Horn, before and after Darwin...

... that, in their representations of complex interactions across social divisions, texts that opt to reflect on divisions without forcing unity are more likely to succeed as GAN candidates (225). Buell discusses this script in four chapters focusing on (1) Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, (2) Mark Twain’s...

... with broadsides were still publicly referred to as ballads. In 1885, Mark Twain parodied such verse in Emmeline Grangerford’s ode to Stephen Dowling Botts — written in loose ballad meter and exhibiting the lachrymose sentimentality of some popular poetry — almost as if to demonstrate the impossibility...

... nor all thirty- twos, as Lady Laura learns painfully in Redux. We might recall Mark Twain s (1907: 471) famous injunction: Figures often beguile me, par- ticularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attrib- uted to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force...

... Cooper to Mark Twain long before such a move would become routine, then by reclaiming “sub-literary” works from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Gone with the Wind to comic books and pornography for appreciative consideration of their hold on the imagination of ordinary American readers. Those scholars were...

... taken in The Secret Life of Things," provides a version of "thing theory" that accounts for the importance of material objects in American literature, especially in the late nineteenth-cen- tury work of writers such as Mark Twain, Frank Norris, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Henry James. Brown notes how...

... their Genesis counterparts but after the characters in Mark Twain s satirical 1904 story The Diaries of Adam and Eve, Adam and Eve are nonetheless a mythical couple who have been together for 150 years and find themselves, in the twenty- first century, in an Eden poised before a fall. But this is not the Fall...

... the white slaves of California" (Squatter, 365, 372). The regions of the South and the Southwest are collapsed together, just as, in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson (to take another, contemporary example), the conflicts of the post-Reconstruction era, when the novels were written, are superimposed...

... offers a rewriting of the definition of postmodern fiction itself. Rewriting examines the use of prior literary texts by canonical nineteenth century writers such as Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Stowe, Thoreau and Twain in the works of twentieth century authors such as E. L. Doctorow, Robert...

... offers a rewriting of the definition of postmodern fiction itself. Rewriting examines the use of prior literary texts by canonical nineteenth century writers such as Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Stowe, Thoreau and Twain in the works of twentieth century authors such as E. L. Doctorow, Robert...

..., Melville, Stowe, Thoreau and Twain in the works of twentieth century authors such as E. L. Doctorow, Robert Coover, Paul Auster, Charles Johnson, Ishmael Reed, Trey Ellis, Kathy Acker, Mark Leyn- er and Bharati Mukherjee. Moraru demonstrates how these postmodern rewrit- ings subvert or undermine...

... twain": the opening of the Suez Canal in the East and the establishment of the transcontinental railway in the West. As bridges that spanned East and West, these Western engineering feats signified not only a physical conjunction of discrete geographical domains but also the overturning...

... john clement ball Should it not be considered a mark of civilization that in the face of barbaric violence, we respond with only a cartoonist’s pencil?  — Flemming Rose, The Tyranny of Silence Satire, with its objectifying, disparaging gaze...

... [1930], where ambivalent appears once and ambivalence three times.) 4. The 1956 – 57 drafts did not include this setting but rather situated the dream from the start in Washington, DC (REP, box I:107, folder 3). The change marks one of many Ellison made to further emphasize his own personal...

... of new forms of agrarian and industrial capitalism that render portrayals of settled agricultural work increasingly fraught. These shifts mark the emergence of a georgic strain specifically responsive to these social and eco- nomic upheavals. This version of georgic, discoverable in the work...