De same ole Huck--America's speculum meditantis. A (p)re-view.(LITERATURE)(Critical essay)

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies | January 1, 2006| | Copyright

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 ...

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