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The Introspective Art of Mark Twain by Douglas Anderson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Introspective Art of Mark Twain about?
__The Introspective Art of Mark Twain__ is a major new assessment of a towering American writer. Seeking to trace the development of Mark Twain's imagination, Douglas Anderson begins near the end of Twain's life, with the long dialogue __What Is Man?__ that Twain published anonymously in 1906. In Twain's view, the little-read __What Is Man?__ lies at the heart of his creative life. It is the central aesthetic testament that he employed to tell the story of his artistic evolution. Anderson follows the contours of that story as it unfolds over Twain's career. The portrait that emerges addresses the full scope of Twain's achievement, drawing on his autobiographical and travel writings, as well as the published and unpublished works of fiction that are by now deeply embedded in the world literary canon. “Steer by the river in your head,” Mark Twain's master pilot, Horace Bixby, once advised him, when the opaque atmosphere of the outer world made it impossible to see the actual Mississippi through which Twain was trying to guide his steamboat. For the purposes of this book, the river in one's head is not a mental construct of the physical world but the riverine networks of consciousness
Who reads The Introspective Art of Mark Twain?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Douglas Anderson
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; Bloomsbury Academic
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501329562
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Short Stories