Mark Twain's short stories
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
Series: Bloom's modern critical interpretations
Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781604132748
Subjects: American Humorous stories; Short story; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-157) and index.
Table of contents: title: Of detectives and their derring-do : the genesis of Mark Twain's "The stolen white elephant" / Howard G. Baetzhold; title: "Hadleyburg" : Mark Twain's dual attack on banal theology and banal literature / Susan K. Harris; title: Levity and gravity in Twain : the bipolar dynamics of the early tales / Peter Gibian; title: Merry tales and The £1,000,000 bank-note and other new stories / Peter Messent; title: Poe, Twain, and the nature of conscience / Lawrence I. Berkove; title: A vernacular tale of bohemia : Jim Smiley and his jumping frog / Gerd Hurm; title: Mark Twain's short fiction / Henry B. Wonham; title: Mark Twain's deformed conscience / Will Kaufman; title: Transvestite tales / Linda A. Morris; title: The relationship between temperament and training : social ideology in "The man who corrupted Hadleyburg" / Abraham Kupersmith.