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Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences

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Letters & EssaysLiterary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1723583332
ISBN13: 9781723583339
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 25 2018
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.07 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses is an 1895 essay by Mark Twain, written as a satire and criticism of the writings of James Fenimore Cooper. Drawing on examples from The Deerslayer and The Pathfinder from Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, the essay claims Cooper is guilty of verbose writing, poor plotting, glaring inconsistencies, overused clichés, cardboard characterizations, and a host of similar offenses. The essay is characteristic of Twain's biting, derisive and highly satirical style of literary criticism, a form he also used to deride such authors as Oliver Goldsmith, George Eliot, Jane Austen, and Robert Louis Stevenson.

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