Hi again. This just intrigues the hell out of me. Truly tantalizing,
because I seem to recall reading exactly the kind of passage you described.

I tried to check out the Bedford Reader -- your possible source? -- but all
I could find was that the 1985 edition seemed to include Twain's "Corn Pone
Opinions" essay. Not what we're looking for, alas.

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On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Wesley Britton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> I have a question about one passage in Life on the Mississippi. I suspect
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> It's the passage where we first get a birds-eye view of a place along the
> river before Twain narrows his focus to one town, then one street, then one
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> Back in grad school, a professor used a term to define this technique of
> moving from the general to the specific, but I can't figure out now what
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> Dr. Wesley Britton
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> Author, Beta-Earth Chronicles
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> www.drwesleybritton.com
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