“HA–!HA! HA!”: THE POINT OF DOTS IN MARK TWAIN’S INNOCENTS ABROAD
“HA–!HA! HA!”: THE POINT OF DOTS IN MARK TWAIN’S INNOCENTS ABROAD
Author(s): Frédéric DumasSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: art; irony; persona; travel; Twain
Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes the iconic representation of a notebook in Twain’s Innocents Abroad to demonstrate that the mise en abyme, supposed to express the author’s experience of an echo, is actually part of a lowbrow aesthetic scheme that builds within the persona’s famed travelogues.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2011
- Issue No: 17
- Page Range: 159-168
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
