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John Bird (De)Composing Metaphor in Huckleberry Finn
February 11th @ 4:00
Sanford 206
An examination of the recently-discovered first half of the
manuscript of Huckleberry Finn, looking specifically at the
ways Mark Twain composed and revised metaphorical
language. This examination reveals some surprising and
interesting results, in many ways going against assumptions
that critics have made about the novel.
John Bird is an Associate Professor of English at Winthrop
University. He received his undergraduate and M.A.
degrees at Appalachian. He is the editor of the Mark Twain
Annual and has published articles on Mark Twain, Thoreau,
and other American writers. He is working on a book on
Mark Twain and metaphor.