Mark Twain and Metaphor

Informationen zum Autor John Bird is Professor of English at Winthrop University and editor of the "Mark Twain Annual." He lives in Charlotte! North Carolina. The Mark Twain and His Circle Series! edited by Tom Quirk and John Bird Klappentext In the most complete study to date of Twain's use of figurative language, this work tackles the core of his writing and explores it with theoretical approaches that have rarely been applied to Twain, providing new insights into how he imagined his world and the singular ways in which he expressed himself. Zusammenfassung In the most complete study to date of Twain’s use of figurative language, this work tackles the core of his writing and explores it with theoretical approaches that have rarely been applied to Twain, providing new insights into how he imagined his world and the singular ways in which he expressed himself.

Product details

• Authors: John Bird
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2011
• EAN: 9780826219541
• ISBN: 978-0-8262-1954-1
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Mark Twain and His Circle
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies