Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1957. / Typescript. Abstracted in Dissertation abstracts, v. 17 (1957) no. 10, p. 2261. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 550-563).

Thesis (M.A.)--Northern Illinois University, 2005.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2005. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 225-235).

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-07-26Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:07:46Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 barreiro_ia_me_assis.pdf: 2278877 bytes, checksum: 4c4bea83dd40428a92a61112081fe584 (MD5) / Secretaria da Educação / Nossa pesquisa busca verificar a presença da sátira menipéia na obra The Adventures of Tom Sawyer de Mark Twain e discutir a atuação do narrador na mesma. É uma obra aparentemente elaborada para jovens, mas também tece críticas às normas pré-estabelecidas e abarca fantasia e humor inserindo-se nas características abordadas por Bakhtin. As raízes da sátira menipéia estão embasadas na carnavalização, a qual abriga um sentido ambivalente e se traduz em ritos cômicos e festejos populares de caráter não oficial. Com o filósofo Menipo de Gadara, século III a.C., a sátira menipéia adquire a forma clássica, mas foi com Marcus Terentius Varro ou Varrão (116-27 a.C.), filósofo romano, autor de Saturae Menipeae que utilizou o termo pela primeira vez. Fundamentamos nossa pesquisa em Bakhtin, o qual discorre sobre a carnavalização e aponta as características da menipéia. O humor e a sátira de Mark Twain resultam de seu intimo modo de pensar, imaginação e senso crítico os quais remetem à sua vivência e à cor local contabilizando um estilo claro, mas, profundo. O pensamento crítico do escritor pode ser notado desde as primeiras obras, exteriorizando-o no seu momento antiimperialista. Enfocamos alguns aspectos da sátira, da carnavalização literária e nos dedicamos ao estudo de As Aventuras de Tom Sawyer sob o viés da sátira menipéia. / Our research deals with the menipeaen satire in the work The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain and discusses the narrator's performance in it. It is a work apparently elaborated for young readers, but it also criticizes the pre-established norms, and it embraces fantasy and humor with bases on the characteristics pointed out by Bakhtin. The roots of the menipeaen satire are based on the carnival, which shelters an ambivalent sense and it turns out to be comic rites and popular feasts of unofficial character. With the philosopher Menipo of Gadara, century III B.C., the menipeaen satire acquires the classic form, but it was with Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 B.C.), roman philosopher, author of Saturae Menipeae that the term was used for the first time. We have based our research on Bakhtin , who talks about the carnival process and points out the characteristics of the menipeaen satire. Twain's humor and satire come from his deep way of thinking, imagination and critical sense; which convey to his experience and to local color computing a clear but deep style. The writer's critical thinking can be noticed from his first works, and it can be evidenced in his anti-imperialist moment. We have focused some aspects of the satire, of the literary carnival, and we have developed a study of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer under the point of view of menipeaen satire.

Orientador: Yara Frateschi Vieira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-18T07:12:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Abaurre_MariaLuizaMarques_M.pdf: 5360910 bytes, checksum: f9c3d6cf3762f54e4da6e93c50a0c136 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1993 / Resumo: Não tem resumo na obra impressa. Base IEL resumo: Leitura comparativa de duas refacções da matéria de Bretanha produzidas no século XIX: Idylls of the King, de Alfred Tennyson, e A Connecticut Yankec in King Arthur's Court, de Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain). O interesse em um estudo comparativo das duas obras é grande, uma vez que, tendo utilizado o mesmo texto como fonte básica para suas refacções - Le Morte D'Arthur (Thomas Malory) -, Tennyson e Clemens produziram obras profundamente diferentes, tanto na abordagem quanto no tratamento da matéria de Bretanha. Da comparação feita entre as alterações promovidas por um e outro autor, ao trabalharem com o texto de Malory, é delineado um interessante quadro histórico-social, bem como são levantadas algumas hipóteses relativas à manutenção do interesse literário por histórias de natureza arturiana / Abstract: Not informed. / Mestrado / Teoria Literaria / Mestre em Letras

This dissertation is an attempt to give a picture of the Nevada frontier journalist Samuel L. Clemens and the surroundings in which he worked. It is also an assessment of the extent to which Clemens (and his alter ego Twain) can be considered a serious journalist and the extent to which he violated the very principles he championed.

This oral interpretation thesis analyzes the influences on Mark Twain's reading, traces his development as an oral interpreter, and studies his techniques for revising selections of his literature to make them more suitable for oral delivery. This study concentrates on Twain's 1884-1885 reading tour with George W. Cable because in that period Twain made his greatest advances as an oral interpreter. The impact that this tour had on Twain's later reading is also analyzed. It was discovered that the interpretation theories developed by Twain are consistent with contemporary theory and practice.

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This thesis offers a different concept of Mark Twain, who worshiped Joan of Arc and considered her the ideal of womanhood.

There are critics who believe that the real Mark Twain was born in the East, while others say that the frontier made him. I have considered evidence on both sides and have definitely concluded that Mark Twain was and is a product of the frontier.