Bruce Michelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1144154 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce Michelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Michelson |
| SIGNATURE | MICHELSON B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Irony and Sarcasm
At levels beyond the reach of recent handbooks and encyclopedias (reviewed in this journal) on classifications and patterns of comic utterance, Roger Kreuz’s pocket-sized introduction, in the excellent MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series, offers clarity, plain-language insights, stylistic grace, and merciful freedom from restrictive method. Describing half a dozen varieties of irony and roving through two millennia of culture-specific and near-m…
An Introduction to the Psychology of Humor
The Year's Work in American Humor Studies, 2013
The Year's Work in American Humor Studies," an annual feature of Studies in American Humor since 1999, reviews humor scholarship and related materials published during the specified year from many disciplinary perspectives, including humor theory. The review gives special emphasis to studies of humor in American culture, broadly conceived
Constructing Mark Twain: New Directions in Scholarship
Robert Frost and the Politics of Poetry
Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self
Can we rediscover wildness in Mark Twain's humor? Can we understand how that wildness helped make him a national legend and a key figure in expression of an American self? In Mark Twain on Loose, Bruce Michelson writes about Twain as a body of literature, as a public personality, and as a myth. Michelson shows that many of Twain's most ambitious and memorable works, from very beginning to end of his career, express a drive for absolute liberation…
Mark Twain, Culture and Gender: Envisioning America through Europe
Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self
The Sexual Education of Edith Wharton
Wilbur's Poetry: Music in a Scattering Time
American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity
Realism, Romance, and Dynamite: The Quarrel of a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
N the Mark Twain canon, one can find several all-out uprisings against the romantic mode, campaigns to drive its bad habits clean out of the American sensibility-and out of the author-and supplant them with plain-language representations of experience as ordinary people know it. adversary, in such fiction, often proves to be the personality seduced by romance, by sentimentality, by literary culture heavily and mindlessly ingested. Looking back ov…
Randall Jarrell: A Literary Life
Hawthorne's House of Three Stories
IN its best moments, Nathaniel Hawthorne's fiction reveals an astonishing duality of mind, a broad awareness that is generally discussed only by halves. In recent years strong evidence has been gathered to show that Hawthorne was a deep questioner of the nature of fiction itself, that he was given to self-conscious puzzling over the problems of being understood, over the impreciseness of language and the pitfalls of communicating by means of stor…
Mark Twain's Escape from Time: A Study of Patterns and Images
Mark Twain the Tourist: The Form of The Innocents Abroad
W HILE MOST READERS AGREE that The Innocents Abroad is organized by some kind of consistent narrative stance, just what that stance is remains a mystery and a cause of argument. The Innocents has lasted a century as most popular travel book ever written by an American, and in course of that century this particular American, this who guides us through Europe, has been hailed and damned with a baffling variety of names. Flagwaving Yankee-Philistine…
Mark Twain the Tourist: The Form of The Innocents Abroad
W HILE MOST READERS AGREE that The Innocents Abroad is organized by some kind of consistent narrative stance, just what that stance is remains a mystery and a cause of argument. The Innocents has lasted a century as most popular travel book ever written by an American, and in course of that century this particular American, this who guides us through Europe, has been hailed and damned with a baffling variety of names. Flagwaving Yankee-Philistine…
Mark Twain the Tourist: The Form of The Innocents Abroad
W HILE MOST READERS AGREE that The Innocents Abroad is organized by some kind of consistent narrative stance, just what that stance is remains a mystery and a cause of argument. The Innocents has lasted a century as most popular travel book ever written by an American, and in course of that century this particular American, this who guides us through Europe, has been hailed and damned with a baffling variety of names. Flagwaving Yankee-Philistine…
Mark Twain's Escape from Time: A Study of Patterns and Images
Hawthorne's House of Three Stories
IN its best moments, Nathaniel Hawthorne's fiction reveals an astonishing duality of mind, a broad awareness that is generally discussed only by halves. In recent years strong evidence has been gathered to show that Hawthorne was a deep questioner of the nature of fiction itself, that he was given to self-conscious puzzling over the problems of being understood, over the impreciseness of language and the pitfalls of communicating by means of stor…
Randall Jarrell: A Literary Life
Realism, Romance, and Dynamite: The Quarrel of a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
N the Mark Twain canon, one can find several all-out uprisings against the romantic mode, campaigns to drive its bad habits clean out of the American sensibility-and out of the author-and supplant them with plain-language representations of experience as ordinary people know it. adversary, in such fiction, often proves to be the personality seduced by romance, by sentimentality, by literary culture heavily and mindlessly ingested. Looking back ov…
American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity
Wilbur's Poetry: Music in a Scattering Time
The Sexual Education of Edith Wharton
Mark Twain, Culture and Gender: Envisioning America through Europe
Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self
Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self
Can we rediscover wildness in Mark Twain's humor? Can we understand how that wildness helped make him a national legend and a key figure in expression of an American self? In Mark Twain on Loose, Bruce Michelson writes about Twain as a body of literature, as a public personality, and as a myth. Michelson shows that many of Twain's most ambitious and memorable works, from very beginning to end of his career, express a drive for absolute liberation…
Robert Frost and the Politics of Poetry
Constructing Mark Twain: New Directions in Scholarship
The Year's Work in American Humor Studies, 2013
The Year's Work in American Humor Studies," an annual feature of Studies in American Humor since 1999, reviews humor scholarship and related materials published during the specified year from many disciplinary perspectives, including humor theory. The review gives special emphasis to studies of humor in American culture, broadly conceived
An Introduction to the Psychology of Humor
Irony and Sarcasm
At levels beyond the reach of recent handbooks and encyclopedias (reviewed in this journal) on classifications and patterns of comic utterance, Roger Kreuz’s pocket-sized introduction, in the excellent MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series, offers clarity, plain-language insights, stylistic grace, and merciful freedom from restrictive method. Describing half a dozen varieties of irony and roving through two millennia of culture-specific and near-m…
Art (12 works) · American and British Literature Analysis (9 works) · American Literature and Humor Studies (9 works) · Literature (8 works) · History (5 works) · American Sports and Literature (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Poetry (3 works)