Project Gutenberg 2004-09-16 Public domain in the USA. 960 Twain, Mark 1835 1910 Clemens, Samuel Langhorne Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens) Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences Produced by David Widger "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences" by Mark Twain is a critical essay that targets the works of James Fenimore Cooper, particularly his novels. Written in the late 19th century, the book serves as a humorous and scathing critique of Cooper's literary style and shortcomings. Twain elaborates on the numerous "offences" against literary art that he attributes to Cooper's writing, making it clear that he finds the author's work lacking in many fundamental aspects of narrative structure and character development. In this text, Twain systematically lists and explains what he perceives as the violations of literary rules within Cooper's novels, particularly focusing on "The Deerslayer." He argues that Cooper's stories fail to engage readers due to unrealistic dialogue, poorly defined characters, and implausible situations. Twain uses an array of examples to illustrate his points, highlighting specific scenes where Cooper's narrative choices lead to absurdity rather than tension or excitement. Ultimately, Twain's critique showcases his satirical wit and assertion that Cooper's literary efforts fall far short of true artistic merit, declaring the work as lacking essential qualities of good storytelling. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. National characteristics, American, in literature Literature and society -- United States United States -- Civilization Criticism -- United States PS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - American Browsing: Literature 58147 58148 2024-10-02T06:31:09.820273 2023-10-02T06:07:33.111393 text/html text/html 55458 2021-01-27T10:44:15 text/html; charset=utf-8 19965 2021-01-27T10:44:15 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 98437 2024-10-02T06:31:16.668247 application/epub+zip 97352 2024-10-02T06:31:13.706260 application/epub+zip 82436 2024-10-02T06:31:11.867255 application/epub+zip 198210 2024-10-02T06:31:18.490268 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 192832 2024-10-02T06:31:15.495233 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 165872 2022-09-02T07:53:10.117546 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 49087 49080 2024-10-02T06:31:09.363291 2023-10-02T06:07:32.944350 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 49086 2021-01-08T17:36:39 text/plain; charset=utf-8 18770 2021-01-08T17:36:39 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 20676 2024-10-02T06:31:18.886233 application/rdf+xml 13092 2024-10-02T06:31:12.898271 image/jpeg 3031 2024-10-02T06:31:12.407253 image/jpeg 97973 2024-10-02T06:31:09.827275 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia