I have a question about one passage in Life on the Mississippi. I suspect it
will be very familiar to many of you.
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
house, then a sleeping man on a porch.
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
term he meant.
Any ideas?
Dr. Wesley Britton
Author, Beta-Earth Chronicles
www.drwesleybritton.com