| Essays |
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The Remarkably Constant
Reader: Dorothy Parker as Book Reviewer
Nancy
Walker |
1 |
An Aesthetic of Anomaly:
Edward Taylor's "Preface" to His
"Gods Determinations," My Mother and the Trolley, and
Some Thoughts on Involuntary Comedy
Renée
Ashley |
15 |
The Motif of the Flattened
Corpse: Mark Twain
Max Adeler, and the Tall Tale Tradition
Horst
H. Kruse |
47 |
Life's Rich Pageant:
The Education of August Feldner
in Mark Twain's No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger
Joseph
Csicsila |
54 |
The Iowa Years of The
Works of Mark Twain: A Reminiscence
John
C. Gerber
|
68 |
| Note |
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Mark Twain Greets 1907
Kevin
J. Hayes
|
88 |
| Reviews |
|
Mark Twain on the
Loose: A Comic Writer
and the American Self, by Bruce Michelson
Review
by John Bird |
94 |
Laughing Matter:
An Essay on the Comic, by Marcel Gutwirth
Review
by Craig E. Bertolet |
99 |
Sut Lovingood's Nat'ral
Born Yarnspinner:
Essays on George Washington Harris, James E. Caron, ed.
Review
by Harry McBrayer Bayne |
104 |
Pryor Convictions
and Other Life Sentences, by Richard Pryor
Review
by Siva Vaidhyanathan |
108 |
The Best of Kin Hubbard:
Abe Martin's Sayings and Wisecracks, by Kin Hubbard
Review
by M, Thomas Inge |
113 |