The Jester and the Sages: Mark Twain in Conversation with Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx

by Catherine Carlstroem, Forrest G. Robinson, Gabriel Noah Brahm Jr., et al.

The Jester and the Sages approaches the life and work of Mark Twain by placing him in conversation with three eminent philosophers of his time--Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Karl Marx. Unprecedented in Twain scholarship, this interdisciplinary analysis by Forrest G. Robinson, Gabriel Noah Brahm Jr., and Catherine Carlstroem rescues the American genius from his role as funny-man by exploring how his reflections on religion, politics,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826219527
• ISBN13: 9780826219527
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5