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Mark's Signs/Twain's Twins: Narcissism in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson
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The authors examined the figure of the double in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson, and argued that the narcissistic crisis in this novel does not mirror all other such crises; rather, it is inscribed within certain particularities, a history, if you will.Abstract:
Summary Through his work “On Narcissism” Freud was to bequeath an intellectual legacy in which the problems of subject and object were described, and in a sense delimited, by the classical iconology inherited with the very naming of “narcissism” itself. Studies of the double in literature are frequently informed by this model. Using Freud's standard formulation of narcissism as a point of departure, this paper examines the figure of the double in Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson. The argument rests on the claim that the narcissistic crisis in Pudd'nhead Wilson does not mirror all other such crises; rather, it is inscribed within certain particularities, a history, if you will. Perhaps Pudd'nhead Wilson is an historical novel, written as it is from a post‐Civil War moment, reflecting back on Twain's relationship to the slavery of the American South. The “family romance” between the slave‐woman, Roxy, and her son impels the plot and constitutes that son as the exemplary narcissist: however, it is a psychological d...read more
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馬克吐温自傳 = The autobiography of Mark Twain
Mark Twain,雙鈞 陳 +1 more
TL;DR: Twain was more than a match for the expanding America of riverboats, gold rushes, and the vast westward movement, which provided the material for his novels and which served to inspire this beloved and uniquely American autobiography as mentioned in this paper.
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The Autobiography of Mark Twain
TL;DR: Twain was more than a match for the expanding America of riverboats, gold rushes, and the vast westward movement, which provided the material for his novels and which served to inspire this beloved and uniquely American autobiography as mentioned in this paper.