 The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter.  Stephen Leacock: A Reappraisal - Página 168editado por - 1986 - 172 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Mark Twain - 1899 - 358 páginas
...kinds of sto ies, but only one difficult kind — the humorous. I will talk mainly about that one. The humorous story is American, the comic story is...humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter. The humorous story may be spun out... | |
 | Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner - 1900 - 358 páginas
...kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind — the humorous. I will talk mainly about that one. The humorous story is American, the comic story is...humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter. The humorous story may be spun out... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1900 - 444 páginas
...several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind—the humorous. I will talk mainly about that one. The humorous story is American, the comic story is...humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter. The humorous story may be spun out... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1899 - 343 páginas
...kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind — the humorous. I will talk mainly about that one. The humorous story is American, the comic story is...humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter. The humorous story may be spun out... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1900 - 444 páginas
...kinds of stories, but only one diff1cult kind — the humorous. I will talk mainly about that one. The humorous story is American, the comic story is...The humorous story depends for its effect upon the tnanner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter. The humorous story may... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1900 - 446 páginas
...difficult kind — the humorous. I will talk mainly about that one. The humorous story is Arneri. can, the comic story is English, the witty story is French....humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling ; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter. The humorous story may be spun out... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1906 - 358 páginas
...kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind — the humorous., I will talk mainly about that one. The humorous story is American,' the comic story is...humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter. The humorous story may be spun out... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1917 - 412 páginas
...kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind — the humorous. I will talk mainly about that one. The humorous story is American, the comic story is...humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter. The humorous story may be spun out... | |
 | J. R. LeMaster, James Darrell Wilson, Christie Graves Hamric - 1993 - 952 páginas
...characteristic humor teclmiques. Perhaps nowhere is Mark Twain's dictum in "How to Tell a Story" that "[t]he humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of telling" better illustrated than in "The Jumping Frog." Twain went to the hills of California prospecting for... | |
 | Daniel Wickberg - 1998 - 292 páginas
...explicit in "How to Tell a Story." Instead, Twain seeks to distinguish forms on the basis of nationality: "The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French."45 Yet the comic story appears throughout as not merely a representative of a national type,... | |
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