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1Author:  Sewell David R. 1954-Add
 Title:  Mark Twain's Languages  
 Published:  2003 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: "Mark Twain's philosophy of language": surely something seems wrong with the phrase. It is pretentious, it claims too much, it takes itself too seriously. Mark Twain was a novelist, not an academic philosopher. Yet we would not balk if the name were "Melville" or "James," or if "language" were changed to "history" or "religion." Novelists can be philosophical, and Mark Twain wrote at least one book, What Is Man?, that claimed to be philosophy; the systematic determinism of his later years is notorious.1 We readily grant him a thorough amateur knowledge of European history but hesitate to admit his expertise in the very medium of which we claim he was a master. Why?
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