Achilles and the Tortoise: Mark Twain's fictions. cloth 272 p.
内容
Focusing on Mark Twain's fiction, this study defines and demonstratesTwain's poetics and reveals why his work was humorous. It argues thathis strength lay not in comedy or satire, but instead in his use of the"sick joke". The book also draws parallels between Twain and HermanMelville.
