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Focusing on Mark Twain's fiction, this study defines and demonstrates Twain's poetics and reveals why his work was humorous. It argues that his strength lay not in comedy or satire, but instead in his use of the "sick joke". The book also draws parallels between Twain and Herman Melville.
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Clark Griffith is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oregon.
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