Author : Burkhard Werner
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656166331
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (561 download)
Book Synopsis Mark Twain’s Theory of the Humorous Story and “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by : Burkhard Werner
Download or read book Mark Twain’s Theory of the Humorous Story and “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” written by Burkhard Werner and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, Note: 3, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik), Veranstaltung: American Realism and Local Color, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Today Mark Twain or using his real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens is often seen as one of the most important authors of the American Realism. His Theory of the Humorous Story is one of the most important theories of writing a funny story. Those are the questions to be answered. Based on interpretations of one of his most famous stories “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, Twain intensions will be shown. This means there will be shown what influenced Twain in his writings and which different interpretations of his works, in this case exemplary of “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, are possible. In the end there will have to be considered if the “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is really a humorous story in sense of Twain’s Theory of the Humorous Story or not.