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Wesley Britton <[log in to unmask]>
Wed, 24 Aug 2016 20:33:02 -0400
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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

 

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