“HA–!HA! HA!”: THE POINT OF DOTS IN MARK TWAIN’S INNOCENTS ABROAD Cover Image

“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 Dumas
Subject(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.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 17
  • Page Range: 159-168
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English