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Mark Twain's humor: the image of a world. / Pascal Covici, Jr.
LIBRA PS1338 .C65
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LIBRA PS1338 .C65
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC95 C5915 962m
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Covici, Pascal, 1930-1997.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Humor.
- Twain, Mark.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
- Humorous stories, American--History and criticism.
- Humorous stories, American.
- Genre:
- Humor.
- Physical Description:
- xiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 266 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Dallas, Texas : Southern Methodist University Press, [1962]
- Contents:
- The material of humor. From the Old Southwest
- The narrator. Beginning of a strategy; The strategy developed
- Parodies and burlesques. Form and force
- The hoax. Revelation; Fooling poor old Huck
- Calling the bluff: images of darkness and of light. Was Hadleyburg corrupted?; The ills of humanity; The hoax as cosmology.
- Notes:
- "Copyright 1962 by Southern Methodist University Press."
- Dark blue cloth boards; stamped on gold on spine.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-260) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 271031
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