Tom Quirk
Biographic Data
| ID | 997362 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Quirk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Quirk |
| SIGNATURE | QUIRK T |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2852-0791 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Canons by Consensus
The Jim Dilemma
Especially in academia, controversy rages over the merits or evils of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in particular its portrayal of Jim, the runaway slave. Opponents disrupt classes and carry picket signs, objecting with strong emotion that Jim is no fit model for African-American youth of today. In continuing outcries they claim that he and the dark period of American history he portrays are best forgotten. That time has gone, Jim'…
Love and Theft
"Coming to Grips with "Huckleberry Finn
In Coming to Grips with HUCKLEBERRY FINN, Tom Quirk traces the history of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from its inception in 1876 to its problematic presence in today's American culture. By approaching Twain's novel from several quite different perspectives, Quirk reveals how the author's imagination worked and why this novel has affected so many people for so long and in so many curious ways
Bergson and American Culture
Bergsonian vitalism challenged the dominance of Spencerian determinism in the early twentieth century and seemed to offer a new foundation for belief in human freedom and individual possibility. Quirk traces the impact of Bergsonism upon the American sensibility and shows how individual writers -- particularly two such different artists as Willa Cather and Wallace Stevens -- appropriated vitalistic notions and made them serve the peculiar require…
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Crowd in American Literature
Against the Current
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Melville's Confidence Man
Fitzgerald and Cather
SHORTLY after The Great Gatsby was published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald received a letter from Willa Cather complimenting him on his achievement.' Fitzgerald was understandably excited about the letter, so much so that he woke up Christian Gausse and his wife at one o'clock in the morning to celebrate.2 His behavior was extravagant, for Gausse was a Dean at Princeton and much Fitzgerald's senior, but extravagant behavior was not unusual for Fit…
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Fitzgerald and Cather
SHORTLY after The Great Gatsby was published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald received a letter from Willa Cather complimenting him on his achievement.' Fitzgerald was understandably excited about the letter, so much so that he woke up Christian Gausse and his wife at one o'clock in the morning to celebrate.2 His behavior was extravagant, for Gausse was a Dean at Princeton and much Fitzgerald's senior, but extravagant behavior was not unusual for Fit…
Melville's Confidence Man
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Against the Current
The Crowd in American Literature
Bergson and American Culture
Bergsonian vitalism challenged the dominance of Spencerian determinism in the early twentieth century and seemed to offer a new foundation for belief in human freedom and individual possibility. Quirk traces the impact of Bergsonism upon the American sensibility and shows how individual writers -- particularly two such different artists as Willa Cather and Wallace Stevens -- appropriated vitalistic notions and made them serve the peculiar require…
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"Coming to Grips with "Huckleberry Finn
In Coming to Grips with HUCKLEBERRY FINN, Tom Quirk traces the history of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from its inception in 1876 to its problematic presence in today's American culture. By approaching Twain's novel from several quite different perspectives, Quirk reveals how the author's imagination worked and why this novel has affected so many people for so long and in so many curious ways
Love and Theft
The Jim Dilemma
Especially in academia, controversy rages over the merits or evils of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in particular its portrayal of Jim, the runaway slave. Opponents disrupt classes and carry picket signs, objecting with strong emotion that Jim is no fit model for African-American youth of today. In continuing outcries they claim that he and the dark period of American history he portrays are best forgotten. That time has gone, Jim'…
Canons by Consensus
Art (9 works) · American and British Literature Analysis (7 works) · History (7 works) · American Literature and Culture (4 works) · Art history (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · American Literature and Humor Studies (3 works) · American Sports and Literature (3 works) · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis (3 works)