"That Petrified Laugh": Mark Twain's Hoaxes in the West and Camelot

Berkove does not analyze any of Twain's other hoaxes and offers no satisfactory definition of the hoax as a genre. Because of this deficiency, he fails to properly answer the crucial question regarding genre: how does the generic form of a work contribute to and, in a sense, determine the work&...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of narrative theory 2011-07, Vol.41 (2), p.204-234
1. Verfasser:	Bilbro, Jeffrey
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	American literature Democracy Fraud Hoaxes Humor Irony Literary criticism Lying Massacres Satire Society Tall tales Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910)
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Zusammenfassung:	Berkove does not analyze any of Twain's other hoaxes and offers no satisfactory definition of the hoax as a genre. Because of this deficiency, he fails to properly answer the crucial question regarding genre: how does the generic form of a work contribute to and, in a sense, determine the work's meaning?
ISSN:	1549-0815 1548-9248 1548-9248
DOI:	10.1353/jnt.2001.0006