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Mark Twain and the art of the tall tale /
Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale is a study of a peculiar American comic strategy and its role in Mark Twain's fiction. Focusing on the writer's experiments with narrative structure, Wonham describes how Twain manipulated conventional approaches to reading and writing by engaging hi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale is a study of a peculiar American comic strategy and its role in Mark Twain's fiction. Focusing on the writer's experiments with narrative structure, Wonham describes how Twain manipulated conventional approaches to reading and writing by engaging his audience in a series of rhetorical games--the rules of which he adapted from the conventions of tall tale in American oral and written traditions. Wonham goes on to show how Twain's appropriation of the genre developed through the course of his career, from The Innocents Abroad to Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 207 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-207) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423736923 9781423736929 1601298994 9781601298997 9780195078015 0195078012 128044262X 9781280442629 0195360192 9780195360196 |