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The Duplicating Imagination: Twain and the Twain Papers

The Duplicating Imagination: Twain and the Twain Papers

Marotti, Maria

Paperback

Letters & EssaysLiterary CriticismGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0271026529
ISBN13: 9780271026527
Publisher: Penn St Univ Pr
Published: Sep 15 1989
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.46 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

Maria Marotti applies a unique mixture of strains of contemporary literary theory to the body of posthumously published works so far published in the Mark Twain Papers series, examining these late, frequently incomplete or abandoned, and usually experimental, works in theoretical light.

Marotti's approach is a text-centered one, semiotic and structuralist in inspiration, and she brings a fresh Continental perspective to bear on an author usually treated biographically, thematically, psychologically. Her concern is with generic definition, and this guides her shaping of the book into four chapters on burlesque, fantasy and dream voyage, romance, and myth. She advances with success the finding, novel in Twain scholarship, that Mark Twain really was experimenting with aspects of fiction ordinarily thought of today as modern or postmodern, and Twain scholars will see that simply being able to consider his various experiments in the terms posed by these theories is itself grounds for changing or at least for reevaluating how they have looked at these writings in the past. Marotti further demonstrates the effectiveness of her terms and terminology for picking up the story of Twain's roots in folklore and oral storytelling, and for grounding these well-known stories in the entirety of his literary development.

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