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DEFINED AND DISTINGUISED HUMOR OF MARK TWAIN

    1 Author(s):  DR. BIBHA KUMARI

Vol -  2, Issue- 3 ,         Page(s) : 56 - 61  (2011 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

“Humour” said Mark Twain, “must not professedly teach, and must not professedly preach; but it must do both if it would live forever”. Whenever people got a chance, a little respite, “they braced themselves with a laugh.” Indeed there was no other means of joy or entertainment for a community engaged in a life and death struggle. “Plainly pioneer life had a sort of chemical effect on the creative mind instantly giving a humorous cast. Plainly, also, the humorist was a type society required to maintain its psychic equilibrium.”–Brooks

1: Walter Blair: The Literature Of United States(ed.). p. 747.
2: The Phrenological Journal, April 1910.
3: Madeleine B. Stern; “Mark Twain had His Head Examined”; American Literature (Man                1969),pp.207-218
4: Bellamy: Mark Twain as a Literary Artist, p. 68
5: HenryNase Smith; The Ordeal of Mark Twain; pp,13-14
6: Samuel C. Webster: Mark Twain, Business Man, Bostan, 1946, p. 317

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