Don't know if Wes Britton meant that spelling, but knowing him, I suspect he
did!

Whatever else about that kind of approach to literature, that is NOT the
state
of Mark Twain studies.  As proof I offer all the papers from the recent
Elmira
conference.  As I remarked to someone there, there were scant few (maybe one
or
two) papers with jargony, "Death of Literature" approaches.  As we discussed
in
the critical theory session, that's never been the way of Mark Twain
studies.
Just a thought.
--
John Bird