...- ment of my classroom experiences as a black feminist professor of American literature. Arac’s main goals are to elucidate why readers of Huckleberry Fznn should reassess it, how it came to be sung as thegreat American literary clas- sic, why it does and does not merit high regard, and why...

....” By GEORGEC. CARRINGTON,JR. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1976. xviii + 201 pp. $12.00. George Carrington’s book presents a new answer to the old question of what we are to make of the conclusion of Huckleberry Finn, and thus pro- vides another example of how this curious ending can...

...?’ “FREE AND EASY”? SPONTANEITY AND THE QUEST FOR MATURITY IN THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN2 By R. J. FERTEL At the heart of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn con- tradictory assessments of spontaneity’s...

...Roy Harvey Pearce Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 “THE END. YOURS TRULY, HUCK FINN” POSTSCRIPT By ROYHARVEY PEARCE In the last chapter of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck speaks twice of going...

... of honest effort.” Tom Sawyer’s dream is “to dis- cover buried treasure, to perform a self-sacrificial act for love of his beloved, to save a life, to triumph over his enemy.” In Huckleberry Finn, Huck “searches for an ideal society founded upon the freedom that grows out of moral responsibility...

... Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain parodies Dumas specifically as well as the whole line of pretender novels. He evokes, kills, reinstates, and kills again embodiments of the pretender, providing, finally, the wispi- est traces of the melancholic royal claimant...

... of this book will find most to object to. A few interpretations strike me as “stretchers,” and I suspect most readers who know Huckleberry Finn well would find others. For example, Carrington argues that “Huck makes Jim pay and pay” (p. 41) for pressuring Huck to remain loyal; and he asserts...

... still magnifi- cently crescent2--except that the “crudeness” of Huckleberry Finn gave offense in certain refined quartens Cable, too, was a person of note. He had printed all of his best fiction: Old Creole Days, The Grandissimes, and Madame Delphine. New England, approving...

... that modern American literature begins with Huckleberry Finn, though the emphasis this receives is generally that Twain’s achievement was the discovery of the vernacular. Actually, the vernacular had been employed for at least the previous sixty years as a staple of American humor. (In the 1840s...

...), he is working on a book concerning Huckleberry Finn and the func- tions of criticism. .Arac I History of Literature? ‘07 entailing certain stylistic protocols (no footnotes, minimal use of tech- nical terminology). The assigned topic of “prose narrative...

... imprisoned on the Phelps plantation and Tom Sawyer is reintroduced and elaborates a cruel and unnecessary scheme for Jim’s liberation) . . . be diminished, accounted for, or forgiven.”2 According to Jeff Abernathy, it is precisely those “failed” last twelve chap- ters that give Huckleberry Finn...

...) . . . be diminished, accounted for, or forgiven.”2 According to Jeff Abernathy, it is precisely those “failed” last twelve chap- ters that give Huckleberry Finn its archetypal charge for U.S. novelists — as opposed to literary critics — in the latter half of the twentieth century. Aber- nathy insists...

... for, or forgiven.”2 According to Jeff Abernathy, it is precisely those “failed” last twelve chap- ters that give Huckleberry Finn its archetypal charge for U.S. novelists — as opposed to literary critics — in the latter half of the twentieth century. Aber- nathy insists, often passionately, that writers...

... for, or forgiven.”2 According to Jeff Abernathy, it is precisely those “failed” last twelve chap- ters that give Huckleberry Finn its archetypal charge for U.S. novelists — as opposed to literary critics — in the latter half of the twentieth century. Aber- nathy insists, often passionately, that writers...

... imprisoned on the Phelps plantation and Tom Sawyer is reintroduced and elaborates a cruel and unnecessary scheme for Jim’s liberation) . . . be diminished, accounted for, or forgiven.”2 According to Jeff Abernathy, it is precisely those “failed” last twelve chap- ters that give Huckleberry Finn...

... for, or forgiven.”2 According to Jeff Abernathy, it is precisely those “failed” last twelve chap- ters that give Huckleberry Finn its archetypal charge for U.S. novelists — as opposed to literary critics — in the latter half of the twentieth century. Aber- nathy insists, often passionately, that writers...

..., 1985. xiii + 238 pp. $15.00. Bruccoli, Matthew J. (editor). New Essays on “The Great Gatsby.” Cambridge, London, New York: Cambridge University Press, The American Novel, 1985. viii + 120 pp. $19.95, cloth; $6.95, paper. Budd, Louis J. (editor). New Essays on “Huckleberry Finn.” Cambridge...

..., such as the huckleberry and the blackberry, are designated by loanblends : /hogelbi:r/ and /blcegbi:r/. The names of several varieties of corn have been modeled on the AmE words : /be:semwelSkarn/ “broom-corn”, /feldwelSkarn/ “field corn”, and /si:melSkarn/ “sweet corn”. Probably /so: dwelikarnl “seed corn...

..., “The drop of black blood in her is superstitious. . .” (p. 36). It seems worth emphasizing that the reference to “black blood” occurs in a quoted thought; hence, there is no reason to doubt Wilson’s sincerity. Twain’s depiction of white characters in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn indicates...

... only on the reality of what pertains to Moll’s individualistic, self-formulated career. In the very different narrative of Huckleberry Finn, for example, Huclc describes the world through which he travels in a way that evokes the autonomous novelistic existence of other characters : Jim...