The life & work of Mark Twain
Title:
The life & work of Mark Twain
Author:
Railton, Stephen, 1948-
Publication Information:
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, 2002.
Physical Description:
6 videocassettes (approximately 744 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. + 2 guidebooks (61, 64 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.)
Series:
Great courses.
SuperStar teachers.
General Note:
Videocassette release of a 2001 production.
Accompanying guidebooks include summaries and outlines, bibliography and biographical notes.
Contents:
Pt.1. Tape 1. Lecture 1. Needing no introduction? ; Lecture 2. From Samuel Clemens to Mark Twain ; Lecture 3. The sense of Mark Twain's humor ; Lecture 4. Marketing Twain -- Pt. 1. Tape 2. Lecture 5. Innocents abroad, I : going East ; Lecture 6. Innocents abroad, II : traveling to unlearn ; Lecture 7. Roughing it : going West ; Lecture 8. The lecture tours -- Pt. 1. Tape 3. Lecture 9. The Whittier after-dinner speech ; Lecture 10. "Old times on the Mississippi" ; Lecture 11. The adventures of Tom Sawyer ; Lecture 12. The performances of Tom Sawyer -- Pt. 2. Tape 1. Lecture 13. Huck Finn, I : defining an American voice ; Lecture 14. Huck Finn, II : the quest for freedom ; Lecture 15. Huck Finn, III : the great American novel? ; Lecture 16. Huck Finn, IV : Classrooms and controversy -- Pt. 2. Tape 2. Lecture 17. Connecticut Yankee, I : unwriting the Middle Ages ; Lecture 18. Connecticut Yankee, II : revisiting the 19th century ; Lecture 19. Connecticut Yankee, III : the quest for status ; Lecture 20. Pudd'nhead Wilson : fictions of law and custom -- Pt. 2. Tape 3. Lecture 21. Anti-imperialist works ; Lecture 22. Late Twain in public ; Lecture 23. Late Twain in private ; Lecture 24. Sam Clemens is dead/Long live Mark Twain.
Abstract:
Professor Stephen Railton of the University of Virginia explores the private persona behind the public figure through literary analysis of some of Mark Twain's most representative works.
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