Book by Robinson Forrest
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Bad faith as the author calls the dissonance between what we profess to believe, how we act and how we interpret our own behaviour, is more than a theme in Mark Twain. Robinson shows that Twain's bleak view of man's social nature, his nostalgia, his ambivalence about the South and his complex relationship to his audience, can all be traced to an awareness of the deceits at the core of his culture.
Forrest G. Robinson is Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. viii+255 pages with index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. Robinson's argument takes rise from a close analysis of social dynamics as represented in "Tom Sawyer". Robinson finds that Mark Twain's characters are engaged in an elaborate form of social play whose dominant feature is "bad faith," the broad spectrum of deceits people resort to in their quest for social stability and individual equanimity. Characters and author and audience, he argues, share very similar cultural predispositions to affirm and deny. Condition: a near fine copy in like jacket. Nº de ref. del artículo: BOOKS003331
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Librería: Works on Paper, DeKalb, IL, Estados Unidos de America
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Librería: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. Cambridge, MA and London : Harvard University Press, 1986. First edition, 1986. Khaki cloth with red metallic spine lettering, 255 pages, illustrated dustjacket. The book is in generally good condition, would be very good except for a heavy quarter inch rough abrasion at top corner of the front cover, sound text block good hinges, clean pages with no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not corner clipped and is also in good condition, with chipped corners and very mildly rubbed spine ends. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Nº de ref. del artículo: 021606
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