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- W583603903 abstract "ABSTRACT By common agreement, Huckleberry Finn is not only the most American boy in literature, but is also the character with whom American readers of all ages tend to identify most readily and most intimately. Against ready-made assumptions, the paper investigates the protagonist's unique constitution, modus operandi, and existential appeal. As a passe-partout to the text, it is suggested that Huck is at one and the same time, and as a primary rather than a secondary phenomenon, a small boy as well as a full-grown man. An apparent repository of classically definable unnecessary desires, informed by a combined Carlylean-Melvillean-Whitmanesque discourse of the (magical) mirror, Twain's figure in the carpet emerges as a nuanced negotiation and transposition: speculum meditantis--mirror of one meditating, speculum vitae humanae--mirror of human life, speculum totis paria corporibus--mirror equal to the body of the country at large, and ultimately hyperbolically as utilitarian speculum humanae salvationis. ********** It is by no means an easy matter, at this late day, to say anything new or fresh about Huckleberry Finn. Laurence Hutton (1896) As regards fame, Seneca notes pedantically that as against for instance love or friendship the opinion of one does not suffice (ad gloriam non est saris unius opinio); Arendt, for her part, offers that Fama, that powerful and much coveted goddess of fountains--not unlike Moneta, the goddess of mnemonics--sports a great many faces, of various sorts and sizes (cf. Arendt 1968: 1-3). Be all that as it may, William Styron makes no bones about it, according to him all one ever need do to achieve immortality is neither more nor less than simply write a book like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (see Brewer 2002). To pastiche Yeats's awe-inspiring oxymoronic national chant, towards the end of a peculiarly restless, nervous, bustling American century, amidst much clamor and publicity, a terrible (literary) beauty was born--marked by a twain (pun intended) title, venue and date--after an excruciating eight-year plus delivery, a challenge to the earlier largely genteel and largely meaningless words and worlds. Come slow; push the door open, yourself--just enough to squeeze in, ... I took one slow step at a time, and there warn't a sound, only I thought I could hear my heart ... [then] unlocking and unbarring and unbolting.... [I] pushed it a little and a little more, till somebody said, There, that's enough--put your head in. I done it ... and there they all was, looking at me ... It]hey held the candle and took a good look at me ... [at last] the old lady says: ... get the wet clothes off from him and dress him up in some of yours (Twain 2001: 133-134). (1) Apparently impervious to the formidable verve and flourish of power relations, culture wars, de-gradation, stigmatization, templatization, canon revision and canon formation, (2) Mark Twain garners the highest popular (visage and name) recognition of all American writers (despite his mere 5'8 eclipsing even such commanding figures as Whitman or Hemingway), and the amount of critical commentary generated by the work on which his fame rests is estimated to be in the range of judicial interpretation accorded to the Constitution of the United States. Anecdotally, fifty years ago to date, in the wake of his ill-fated short essay Why Huckleberry Finn is not the great American novel, Van O'Connor (1956: 108) admitted somewhat wryly that to criticize Mark Twain is as irreverent and sacrilegious as to criticize Mother's Day. (3) Also, as Skandera-Trombley (1994 [1997]: 1) specifically points out apropos of biographical criticism, writing about Samuel Langhome Clemens has proved to be a near obligatory rite of passage for a whole legion of eminent Americanists. A rather special combination of voice, dramatis personae, place, and event, though not exactly a passport to exquisite culture, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is reputed to be the most insinuating and the most compelling of all American novels. …" @default.
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- W583603903 title "De Same Ole Huck-America's Speculum Meditantis. A (P)re-View" @default.
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