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Acting Naturally : Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance by Randall Knoper (1995, Hardcover)
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Notes: NICE CONDITION HARDCOVER BOOK IN DUST JACKET. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. NO WEAR TO COVER. ALMOST NO WEAR TO DUST JACKET. A CLEAN & SOLID BOOK. Release Date: 1995-03-22. Publisher: University of California Press.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520086198
ISBN-139780520086197
eBay Product ID (ePID)259802
Product Key Features
Number of Pages250 Pages
Publication NameActing Naturally : Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGeneral, Popular Culture, American / General, Acting & Auditioning
Publication Year1995
TypeTextbook
AuthorRandall Knoper
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Performing Arts, Social Science
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight16.5 Oz
Item Length6.4 in
Item Width9.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN94-014467
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal818/.409
SynopsisThe phenomenon of performance is central to Mark Twain's writing and persona. But Twain's performative aspects have usually been dismissed as theatrical and discounted as lowbrow burlesque. Randall Knoper takes Twain's theatricality seriously and shows how Twain's work both echoes and engages the social and cultural problems embodied in nineteenth-century popular entertainments. Knoper draws on theater history, theories of acting and bodily expression, psychology and physiology, scientific accounts of spiritualism, and commercial spectacles to demonstrate Twain's use of "acting" and the "natural" in his creative explorations. This book enlarges our understanding of Mark Twain--the artist and the man--and also provides a window into a culture whose entertainments registered the sexual, racial, economic, and scientific forces that were transforming it.
LC Classification NumberPS1342.P45K57 1995
