Bibliograph

The life & work of Mark Twain, the Teaching Company Limited Partnership ; producer, James Blandford ; director, Tom Dunton ; [writer], Stephen Railton, Part 1 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 1 of 2

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

The life & work of Mark Twain

Oclc number

53055816

Responsibility statement

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

Runtime

http://bibfra.me/vocab/marc/unknown

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 I, disc 1. Needing no introduction? -- From Samuel Clemens to Mark Twain -- The sense of Mark Twain's humor -- Marketing Twain -- Innocents abroad, I: going East -- Innocents abroad, II: traveling to unlearn -- Part I, disc 2. Roughing it: going West -- The lecture tours -- The Whittier after-dinner speech -- "Old times on the Mississippi" -- The adventures of Tom Sawyer -- The performances of Tom Sawyer

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Life and work of Mark Twain

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