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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses is an 1895 satirical essay by Mark Twain, and one of the most famous pieces of American literary criticism ever written. In the essay, Twain takes aim with both barrels at The Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper, and where many literary critics, including three whom Twain quotes in the introduction to his essay, praised them as masterpieces of art and literature, Twain instead eviscerates them as cesspools of verbose Purple Prose, flat and/or inconsistent characterisation, cliché-ridden and hole-filled plots, and much more besides. Whether the essay was meant as a serious critique of Fenimore Cooper's literary output, a scathing indictment of Romantic literature in general, or just another piece of trademark Twain satire is debated to this day.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })For the little-known Part II, see Fenimore Cooper's Further Literary Offenses: Cooper's Prose Style, in which Twain enumerates the "114 offenses against literary art out of a possible 115" in the space of two-thirds of a page from The Deerslayer that he references at the beginning of Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses.For an opposite opinion, see Fenimore Cooper's Literary Defenses. | |
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Artistic License – Geology: Among the many instances of the world in Cooper's books deviating from the real world, one that attracts Twain's attention comes when Chingachgook is tracking someone through the forest and has lost the trail, and gets the idea to divert the course of a stream, which reveals the moccasin prints of his quarry in the slush in the river bed. Never mind that, as Twain points out, the current should have washed away the footprints almost immediately. | |
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