![]() ![]() Twain extended another dual role to his second narrator, the Paladin as entertainer and troubadour. Twain's Joan of Arc represents the literary, historical, and religious achievement of an unacknowledged American scholar who showed an outstanding youth of character, integrity, and purity.Throughout the narrative in his book, Twain reflected Joan's page and secretary Louis de Conte as his persona in the dual role of chronicler and minstrel. ![]() ![]() It shows that Twain as Louis de Conte, chronicler and minstrel, faithfully retold Joan's story from his sources. The study focuses upon the historical and literary merits of Twain's Joan through a detailed analysis of Twain's notations in his French and English sources (Berkeley). It points to Twain as an unacknowledged historian and scholar who, despite his biases and misgivings from his previous books and from his sources, fashioned Joan's story for an American audience while he stayed abroad in Florence and Paris with his family. This study shows in Twain's Joan a mosaic work of French history and American folk humor. ![]()
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