Bibliograph

The life & work of Mark Twain, the Teaching Company Limited Partnership ; producer, James Blandford ; director, Tom Dunton ; [writer], Stephen Railton, Part 2 of 2

Type

Label

The life & work of Mark Twain, the Teaching Company Limited Partnership ; producer, James Blandford ; director, Tom Dunton ; [writer], Stephen Railton, Part 2 of 2

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

The life & work of Mark Twain

Oclc number

53055843

Responsibility statement

the Teaching Company Limited Partnership ; producer, James Blandford ; director, Tom Dunton ; [writer], Stephen Railton

Runtime

720

Series statement

Great courses on tape

Summary

Professor Stephen Railton of the University of Virginia explores the private persona behind the public figure through literary analysis of some of his Mark Twain's most representative works. A series of 24 lectures on a college course level

Table Of Contents

Part II, disc 3. Huck Finn, I: defining an American voice -- Huck Finn, II: the quest for freedom -- Huck Finn, III: the great American novel? -- Huck Finn, IV: Classrooms and controversy -- Connecticut Yankee, I: unwriting the Middle Ages -- Connecticut Yankee, II: revisiting the 19th century -- Part II, disc 4. Connecticut Yankee, III: the quest for status -- Pudd'nhead Wilson: fictions of law and custom -- Anti-imperialist works -- Late Twain in public -- Late Twain in private -- Sam Clemens is dead/Long live Mark Twain

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Life and work of Mark Twain

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