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[News Clip: Mark Twain]
No full textVideo footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the family of Dallas insurance man E.C. Stradley discovering letters written to Mrs. Stradley's uncle by author Mark Twain
Listen: Vanderbilt Twain exhibit pays tribute to popular American author
No full textIncludes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP3 file: "InterVU - Podcasts - Listen: Vanderbilt Twain exhibit pays tribute to popular American author." By Vanderbilt University. Ann Marie Deer Owens speaks to Kathy Smith, Associate Director of Special Collections and University Archives at the Jean and Alexander Heard Library of Vanderbilt, about Vanderbilt's participation in Nashville's citywide "Twain and Twang" celebration of Mark Twain (on the 175th anniversary of his birth and the 100th of his death). Special Collections is presenting an exhibit called "Mark Twain: An American Original." The exhibit draws from the large collection of Twain first editions and other books given to the library by Vanderbilt professor Marc H. Hollender, but other books, letters and items of memorabilia are borrowed from Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal, Mo., and from San Diego State University. Smith discusses Twain as an author, a journalist and a man, as well as his struggles against copyright infringement
NBC News Scripts
No full textScript from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the family of Dallas insurance man E.C. Stradley discovering letters written to Mrs. Stradley's uncle by author Mark Twain
Mark Twain in China
No full textLooking at Twain in various Chinese contexts—his response to events involving the American Chinese community and to the Chinese across the Pacific, his posthumous journey through translation, and China's reception of the author and his ..
Mark Twain as Icon
No full textMark Twain was an American author, humorist, journalist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. The town in which he was raised later provided the setting for his most famous novels. He spent a great amount of time among slaves, playing in their quarters and taking part in their spirituals. Twain was a celebrity already during his life, even before than he himself could realize it. He is best known for his pieces - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. His books provide insight into the past and the events of his personal life demonstrate his role as an eyewitness to history.NeobhájenoMark Twain was an American author, humorist, journalist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. The town in which he was raised later provided the setting for his most famous novels. He spent a great amount of time among slaves, playing in their quarters and taking part in their spirituals. Twain was a celebrity already during his life, even before than he himself could realize it. He is best known for his pieces - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. His books provide insight into the past and the events of his personal life demonstrate his role as an eyewitness to history
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Mark Twain as a Social Critic
No full textThe author attempts to show in this thesis that Mark Twain was a serious observer and critic of life
Ben Tarnoff Speaks at Mark Twain Celebration
No full textAuthor Ben Tarnoff speaking at the library\u27s annual Mark Twain Celebration in October 2014.https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/mckeelibraryhistory/1023/thumbnail.jp
Mark Twain vs. the Critics
No full text Louis J. Budd. Our Mark Twain: The Making of His Public Personality. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983.266 pp. Jane Curry. The River's in My Blood: Riverboat Pilots Tell Their Stories. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983. 288 + xx pp. Susan K. Harris. Mark Twain's Escape From Time: A Study of Patterns. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1982. 169 + vii pp. James L. Johnson. Mark Twain and the Limits of Power: Emerson's God in Ruins. University of Tennessee Press, 1982. 206 + x pp. Horst H. Kruse. Mark Twain and "Life on the Mississippi. " Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982. 183 + xviii pp. Elizabeth McMahan, ed. Critical Approaches to Mark Twain's Short Stories. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1981. 147 + x pp. Robert Keith Miller. Mark Twain. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1983. 221 + xii pp. One does not find, and should not expect, original criticism in Robert Miller's Mark Twain. The book is one of a series ("Literature and Life," covering a mixture of late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American writers ranging from Joseph Conrad to Joan Didion), and follows the series format, including lengthy plot summaries of all works discussed. The author does not seem to be a Twain scholar (he has written on Oscar Wilde for the same series), and his book will be of use principally to the undergraduate student and the general reader. Still, through its very lack of originality, such a book may have its interest for the scholar as a compendium of accepted opinion, presenting the Mark Twain of our day. That Mark Twain is still the Twain of Justin Kaplan's Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain (1967) or, for that matter, of Van Wyck Brooks's The Ordeal of Mark Twain (1920)—a man and writer divided against himself, split between East and West, between humor and the genteel tradition, between present and past, between progress and nostalgia. </jats:p
[Letter] [c. 1873] 13th, Elmira [to] Warner / Saml L. Clemens.
No full textSee also additional letters in the collection from Twain.Twain tells Warner that the "surplusage" in the contract of "about 600 pages" is unnecessary; he instructs Warner to tell Bliss to take it out, and amend the contract to state that they will provide him with the manuscript for _The Gilded Age_. He states that he and "Livy" are a little rusty as the baby was sick and kept them up "seven tenths of the night." In a postscript, Twain tells Warner that the sensational Lackland is "perhaps better suited to the stage than a book." The recipient of the letter, Charles Dudley Warner, was Twain\u27s co-author for his satirical _The Gilded Age_ (1873). Novelist, essayist, lecturer, prospector, river pilot, and journalist, Samuel Langhorne Clemens used the pseudonym "Mark Twain," a river pilot\u27s catchphrase for measuring depth. His boyhood and early apprenticeship as a river boat pilot on the Mississippi provided much of the background for his most well-known works _The Adventures of Tom Sawyer_ (1876) and _The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_ (1884)
Mark Twain in China
No full textMark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) has had an intriguing relationship with China that is not as widely known as it should be. Although he never visited the country, he played a significant role in speaking for the Chinese people both at home and abroad. After his death, his Chinese adventures did not come to an end, for his body of works continued to travel through China in translation throughout the twentieth century. Were Twain alive today, he would be elated to know that he is widely studied and admired there, and that Adventures of Huckleberry Finn alone has gone through no less than ninety different Chinese translations, traversing China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Looking at Twain in various Chinese contexts—his response to events involving the American Chinese community and to the Chinese across the Pacific, his posthumous journey through translation, and China's reception of the author and his work, Mark Twain in China points to the repercussions of Twain in a global theater. It highlights the cultural specificity of concepts such as 'race,' 'nation,' and 'empire,' and helps us rethink their alternative legacies in countries with dramatically different racial and cultural dynamics from the United States
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