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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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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
1998.
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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. | |
| 520 | |a & 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 sustain human laughter. Through a close reading of the fictions-short and long, early and late-Griffith contends that Mark Twain's strength lay not in comedy or in satire or (as the 19th century understood the term) even in the practice of humor. Rather his genius lay in the joke, specifically the "sick joke | ||
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