Creativity Mark Twain and the national character of American literature: P. Balditsyn

This study of Mark Twain’s work against a wide background of American and world literature represents this writer with a vivid embodiment of a national character and national type of thinking. The book discusses important problems of the development of US literature: the originality of humor and realism, the main plot of American culture and the indigenous fracture of national identity at the turn of the 19th-XX centuries. Preemptant attention is paid to the poetics of the plots and genres of Twain’s prose: a humorous story, a novel about the adventures of adolescents, a historical novel-fantasia, a novel-altitude, a political pamphlet, a holy parody, an autobiography.

Author
Balditsyn P.V.
Publisher
VK, 2004