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nombretomado (Season 1)
2018-07-29 09:14:12

If there isn't an active editor on there who is familiar with the work and can restructure the page appropriately, cut it.

mlsmithca (Edited uphill both ways)
2018-07-29 12:07:30

I'll say this about that page: there are more than enough blue links there to create a decent trope list (for both the ones Twain uses himself and the ones to which he alludes as (mis)used by Cooper), but it would require several hours, perhaps more, to re-organise. On the other hand, cutting the page entirely would mean that a page on that essay would have to start from scratch. Perhaps a Sandbox/ page is in order?

As to the essay itself, there are plenty of websites which already have the full text freely available, so just a link to one such website should suffice.

EDITED TO ADD: Sandbox.Fenimore Coopers Literary Offences is up and running. I managed to translate his list of nineteen rules for romantic fiction into the beginnings of a trope list, but it's all I have the energy to do for now. And cross-wicking the page will be another Herculean labour...

(Speaking of "labour" and the whole American vs. Commonwealth Spellings, surely the page should be Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses? Y'know, Twain being American and all.)

Edited by mlsmithca
jamespolk Since: Aug, 2012
2018-07-29 15:23:11

British people have this odd habit of disregarding the spelling of American words even when they are proper nouns. It should be Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses, period, because that's what Mark Twain titled his work.

crazysamaritan MOD Since: Apr, 2010
2018-07-29 17:34:30

It's a people thing. I've seen (cannot cite from memory) British proper nouns being changed into American spelling, too.

Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
jamespolk Since: Aug, 2012
2018-07-29 17:49:17

^Maybe I just notice their mangling of our proper nouns more.

Re: the actual page, it would seem that the Sandbox is the way to go. It's valid to make a trope list with all the tropes Twain cites Cooper as using/butchering. Hotlink on the page to Wikimedia Commons or Project Gutenberg or some place that has the text.

One of these days I'm gonna make a work page for "Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism."

mlsmithca (Edited uphill both ways)
2018-07-29 20:34:31

Call it a form of Creator Provincialism, I suppose.

Anyway, the text of the essay has been dismantled into a trope list on the Sandbox/ page, though any further input from someone familiar with it would be appreciated.

Malady (X-Troper)
2018-07-29 20:46:26

Bump. Found another one, when going through Books on Trope.

Goodnight!

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SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
2018-07-30 01:38:31

Huh. Books on Trope are works that aren't simply being troped, they are about tropes. That's probably the reason why they are sometimes directly hosted here.

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