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Mark Twain and Metaphor
From: The Journal of American Culture
Date: 20080601
Author:Browne, Ray B
Mark Twain and Metaphor John Bird. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007.
Mark Twain increasingly is being read as the Library of American literature and the Shakespeare of frontier vernacular. This fine book continues the probing that has become almost an obsession in American scholarship. This time it is Twain's language, the question of what makes it so powerful when natural and less so when the author relinquished his native tongue for "literary" language. Bird's reading of the subject suggests that the (Mississippi) River was the most powerful metaphor in Twain's language and that ...
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