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Kresta in the Afternoon – December 26, 2023 – Hour 2

Joseph Csicsila discusses the religious and social themes of Mark Twain’s writings.

 

#13: Mark Twain: Haunted by God

Few authors are more distinctly American than Mark Twain. And Twain was a complicated man whose views on politics, religion and other issues are often misunderstood, even to this day. We examine how religion is portrayed in his works with Joseph Csicsila.

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Dr. Joseph Csicsila is the head of the English Language and Literature Department at Eastern Michigan University. He teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in American literature and literary criticism and in 2002 he received Eastern Michigan University's highest honor, the Ronald W. Collins Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching. His research focuses on American literature of the 19th and early 20th centuries and he serves as assistant editor of The Mark Twain Annual. He’s the co-author of Heretical Fictions: Religion in the Literature of Mark Twain.
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