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The Introspective Art of Mark Twain (Hardcover)
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The Introspective Art of Mark Twain (Hardcover)
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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unpublished works of fiction that are by now deeply embedded in the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 itself: the river that is the mind. The
detailed discussions of individual books that structure each
chapter direct the attention of Mark Twain's students and admirers,
through inward rather than outward channels, toward a fuller
appreciation for his legacy.
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