Факт и вымысел в журналистике Марка Твена

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«We have been suffering from the seven years' itch for many months. It is probably the most aggravating disease in the world. It is contagious. That man has commenced a career of suffering which is frightful to contemplate; there is no cure for the distemper». Local Column. Territorial Enterprise (January 8, 1863) / The Works of Mark Twain; Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1 1851–1864. Berkley: Univ. of California press, 1979. P. 182.

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«Sam offered the fictitious reporter’s “notes” <…> A week later, after his hat was filched at an Odd Fellows ball in Gold Hill, he announced menacingly in the column that he suffered from the seven years’ itch».

Powers R. Mark Twain. A life. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney: Free press, 2005. P. 113.

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«Mr. Wm. L. Card, of Silver City, has invented a sort of infernal machine, which is to turn quartz mills by electricity. It consists of wheels and things, and – however, we could not describe it without getting tangled. Mr. Card assures us that he can apply his invention to all the mills in Silver City».

Local Column. Territorial Enterprise (April 19 – 30, 1863) / Ibid. P. 413.

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«Sulphur Deposit», «Silver bars – how assayed».

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Virginia City Territorial Enterprise 1862–1868. Digital archive: [сайт].URL: http://twainquotes.com/teindex.html (http://twainquotes.com/teindex.html)(дата обращения 07.04.2016).

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«A journalistic counterculture coalesced at the Enterprise and improvised a news literature-on-deadline that caught the emerging voice of a self-defined America».

Powers R. Mark Twain. A life. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney: Free press, 2005. P. 113.

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«Небылица – это, по сути, форма устного развлечения; аудитория ценит не столько буквальное значение баек, сколько художественные средства выразительности» (The tall tale is essentially an oral form of entertainment; the audience appreciates the imaginative invention rather than the literal meaning of the tales).

Tall tale (Folk Tale) / Encyclopedia Britannica: [сайт]. URL: http://global.britannica.com/art/tall-tale (http://global.britannica.com/art/tall-tale)

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«After dark, he ventured forth with his nose swollen to the size of several junk bottles – a vast, inflammed and pulpy old snoot – to get advice about having it amputated». DeQuille D. Mark Twain takes a lesson in the manly art // The Washoe Giant in San Francisco / Ed. by F. Walker.