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Tag: Mark Twain

Literary Theory

“The Notorious Jumping Reader of Calaveras County: Twain, Blanchot, and a Dialectic of Storytelling.” The Midwest Quarterly 49.4 (2008): 374-87. “Drowning Martin Eden’s … More

Fredric Jameson, Henry Louis Gates, Jack London, literary theory, Mark Twain, Martin Eden, Susan Lanser, world literature

Twelve Jokes from (if not by) Sigmund Freud

In 1905, Sigmund Freud published his book-length study, Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious. Here are some of the … More

A. A. Brill, analysis, ba-boom, connotation, jokes, Mark Twain, ouch, poetic language, psychoanalysis, psychology, Sigmund Freud, unconscious

My Excellent Twitter Reviews for #TLSAPP

Presented here in all their glory, and in order from first to last, are my losing entries for the TLS … More

close but no cigar, contests, Edith Wharton, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Eliot, Henry James, Hobbit, Joseph Conrad, literary criticism, Mark Twain, parody, Raymond Chandler, Times Literary Supplement, TLS

 

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