Delving into the psychological aspects of metaphor to reveal Twain s attitudes and thoughts, Bird shows how using metaphor as a guide to Twain reveals much about his composition process. From The Jumping Frog to the late dream narratives, Bird considers Twain s metaphoric construction over his complete career and especially sheds new light on his central texts. He reconsiders Old Times on the Mississippi as the most purely metaphorical of Twain s writings, goes on to look at how Twain used metaphor and talked about it in a variety of works and genres, and even argues that Clemens s pseudonym is not so much an alter ego as a metaphorized self. In addition to dealing with issues currently central to Twain studies, such as race and gender, Bird also links metaphor to humor and dream theory to further illuminate topics central to Twain s work.
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John Bird is Professor of English at Winthrop University and editor of the Mark Twain Annual. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Figuring the End, Tom Sawyer, Old Times, Miss Watson, Huckleberry Finn, Figuring the River, Simon Wheeler, Those Extraordinary Twins, Jim Smiley, Samuel Clemens, The Jumping Frog, Scotty Briggs, The Great Dark, Connecticut Yankee, Aunt Rachel, True Story, Henry Nash Smith, William Dean Howells, Hank Morgan, Baker's Blue-jay Yarn, Which Was the Dream, Tramp Abroad, Blue Hen's Chickens Browse Sample Pages:
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