| Description |
1 online resource (122 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction. Mine the gap / Gretchen Martin -- Mind the gap: a reader reading Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / John Bird -- "It lit up his whole head with an evil joy": the unnamed offense, mysterious stranger, and revenge in Mark Twain's "The man that corrupted Hadleyburg" / Autumn Lauzon -- Glimpsing universal illusion through the narrative gaps of a Connecticut Yankee and No. 44, The mysterious stranger / Christopher D. Morris -- Coming up empty: exploring narrative omissions in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Patricia F. D'Ascoli -- Pudd'nhead Wilson and the discourse of black criminality / Emahunn Campbell -- Stars and drift-logs and rafts: Huckleberry Finn's readings of the river / Kelly Richardson |
| Summary |
Mark Twain utilized a unique literary device throughout his fiction by routinely omitting or suspending crucial information in terms of plot, character portraits, descriptive events, chronology, and other aspects from his texts. Twain often introduces characters with very few details regarding their personal histories; while, other information is withheld in terms of the narrative's chronology or not addressed at all, thus producing gaps in the narrative. For example, Twain does not provide a .. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 fast |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781443864367 |
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1443864366 |
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1306992435 |
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9781306992435 |
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