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Achilles and the tortoise : Mark Twain's fictions /

& Nbsp;Covering the entire body of Mark Twain's fiction, Clark Griffith in Achilles and the Tortoise answers two questions: How did Mark Twain write? And why is he funny? Griffith defines and demonstrates Mark Twain's poetics and, in doing so, reveals Twain's ability to create and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Griffith, Clark, 1924-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Essays: Form and Content; Part I: Three Polemical Essays; Mark Twain and the "Infernal Twoness": An Essay on the Comic; Mark Twain and the Sick Joke: An Essay on Laughter; Sam Clemens and G.S. Weaver; Hank Morgan and Mark Twain: An Essay on Books and Reality; Part II: The River Trilogy; Tom Sawyer: An Essay on Romantic Folly; Huckleberry Finn: An Essay on the Dilemmas of Realism; Pudd'nhead Wilson: An Essay on Triumphant Reality; Part III: A Last, Speculative Essay; Mark Twain and Melville: An Essay on the Metaphysics of Twinship. 
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