Tom Quirk

• Canons by Consensus

  Joseph Csicsila, Tom Quirk•BOOK•Canons by Consensus•2011

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• The Jim Dilemma

  Tom Quirk, Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua•ARTICLE•African American Review•2000

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  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

  Tom Quirk•REVIEW•African American Review•1995

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• "Coming to Grips with "Huckleberry Finn

  Harold Aspiz, Tom Quirk•ARTICLE•American Literature•1994

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  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

  J S Leonard, Tom Quirk•ARTICLE•American Literature•1990

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  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

  Tom Quirk, Mark Twain et al.•ARTICLE•American Literature•1990

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• The Crowd in American Literature

  Tom Quirk, Nicolaus Mills•ARTICLE•American Literature•1987

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• Against the Current

  Tom Quirk, Frances Kroll Ring•ARTICLE•American Literature•1986

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• F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Tom Quirk, André Le Vot et al.•ARTICLE•American Literature•1984

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• Melville's Confidence Man

  Gustaaf Van Cromphout, Tom Quirk•ARTICLE•American Literature•1983

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• Fitzgerald and Cather

  Tom Quirk•ARTICLE•American Literature•1982

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  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…

• Fitzgerald and Cather

  Tom Quirk•ARTICLE•American Literature•1982

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  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

  Gustaaf Van Cromphout, Tom Quirk•ARTICLE•American Literature•1983

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• F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Tom Quirk, André Le Vot et al.•ARTICLE•American Literature•1984

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• Against the Current

  Tom Quirk, Frances Kroll Ring•ARTICLE•American Literature•1986

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• The Crowd in American Literature

  Tom Quirk, Nicolaus Mills•ARTICLE•American Literature•1987

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• Bergson and American Culture

  J S Leonard, Tom Quirk•ARTICLE•American Literature•1990

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  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

  Tom Quirk, Mark Twain et al.•ARTICLE•American Literature•1990

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• "Coming to Grips with "Huckleberry Finn

  Harold Aspiz, Tom Quirk•ARTICLE•American Literature•1994

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  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

  Tom Quirk•REVIEW•African American Review•1995

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• The Jim Dilemma

  Tom Quirk, Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua•ARTICLE•African American Review•2000

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  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

  Joseph Csicsila, Tom Quirk•BOOK•Canons by Consensus•2011

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