Mark Twain: "Humour on the Run"

by Stuart Hutchinson

This book explores Twain's major writings as they address the New World and the Old, race, slavery, imperialism, the possibility of American literary form and the limits of humour. Twain's humour is an expression of the pleasure and fun of life, but it is also a response to ultimate contradictions and losses. It is particularly American in that it rarely points to harmonies that might actually be enjoyed beyond itself. It is the humour of someone...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9051835779
• ISBN13: 9789051835779
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Brill/Rodopi
• Length: 139 Pages