The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Mark Twain - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Covici, Jr., Pascal. Mark Twain's Humor: The Image of a World. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1962, 266 p.
Full-length study of Twain's humorous works, including a discussion of the frog story. Covici contends that Wheeler's deadpan style of narration, his inattention to his audience, and his inability to distinguish between the significant and trivial, and between the mundane and fantastic, are the main sources of humor in the tale.
Cox, James M. Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966, 321 p.
Freudian analysis of Twain's works, with a section on the frog sketch, assessing the significance of the tale's layered use of frames.
Lewis, Oscar. The Origin of the Celebrated Jumping Frog. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1931, 27 p.
Traces the history of the story from its...
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