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Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale
Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale
Author: Henry B. Wonham
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195078015
ISBN-10: 0195078012
Publication Date: 2/11/1993
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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