Heretical fictions: religion in the literature of Mark Twain
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1. Verfasser: Berkove, Lawrence I. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Iowa City University of Iowa Press ©2010
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Twain's countertheology : I have always preached -- Roughing it : the dream of the good life -- Adventures of Tom Sawyer : a company so small as to be hardly worth the saving -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : the hoax of freedom -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court : the eclipse of hope -- No. 44, the mysterious stranger : the false promise of the mind -- The last letters from Earth : between despair and compassion
Heretical Fictions is the first full-length study to assess the importance of Twain's heretical Calvinism as the foundation of his major works, bringing to light important thematic ties that connect the author's early work to his high period and from there to his late work. Berkove and Csicsila set forth the main elements of Twain's "countertheological" interpretation of Calvinism and analyze in detail the way it shapes five of his major books & mdash;Roughing It, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and No. 44, The Mysterious
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