...there. But this detail also has been overlooked in the Deerslayer tale. 5. They require that when the personages of a tale deal in conversation, the talk...discoverable purpose, and a show of relevancy, and remain to the neighborhood of the subject in hand, and be interesting to the reader, and help out the tale,...

...Finn," 16. Twain's belief that dialogue, as he says in "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses," shall be "talk such as human beings would be likely to talk in the given circumstances." Beyond that, the word "nigger" becomes "like another conscience" for the reader, continually confronting...

...both dead and alive, shall exhibit a sufficient excuse for being there. 5. They require that when the personages of a tale deal in conversation, the talk...shall sound like human talk, and be talk such as human being would be like to talk in the given circumstances, and have a discoverable meaning, also a discoverable...

...criticisms can be applied to Brown's novel: "A tale shall accomplish something and arrive somewhere"; "the talk shall sound like human talk, and be talk...would be likely to talk in the given circumstances"; "the author shall make the reader feel a deep interest in the personages of his tale and in their fate";...

...issue with the inauthenticity of the dialect spoken by Cooper's characters, remarking that "When the personages of a tale deal in conversation, the talk shall sound like human talk" (331). By directly dismantling Matthews's published opinions about Cooper, Twain lightheartedly threw...