Randall Knoper

Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Clarifies why understanding Mark Twain's writing is essential to understanding enduring patterns and problems in American culture. Conversely, it compellingly illustrates why one does not fully understand Mark Twain's work unless one has some understanding of America's preoccupation with performance, conspicuous display, and the mental sciences."--Howard Horwitz, author of "By the Law of Nature: Form and Value in Nineteenth-Century America "In place of the strictly literary frame of reference that has previously organized the Twain canon, Knoper productively focuses on the spectrum of theatrical attitudes whereby Twain reconfigured his culture's race and gender hierarchies into the power to construct social realities differently. This work is sure to play a significant role in the reinvention of Mark Twain for the New American Studies."--Donald E. Pease, editor of "Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon "Knoper takes up quintessential aspects of Twain's writings, mind, and career. . . . [He] is brilliant in enunciating clearly and coherently ideas and attitudes that Twain either held confusedly or intimated almost unintentionally."--Louis J. Budd, author of "Our Mark Twain

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: März 1995
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780520086197
• ISBN-10: 0520086198
• Artikelnr.: 57147608

Autorenporträt

Randall Knoper is Associate Professor of American Literature and American Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.