Spatial order? Sent from my iPad > On Aug 24, 2016, at 7:33 PM, Wesley Britton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > 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 > > >