Huckleberry Finn Critics

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  • Huck Finn Critics
    • Morality
      • Steven Mintz (Rethinking Huck)
        • "the extent to which individual and collective morality can be at odds"
        • "At the novel's very heart lies the conflict between Huck Finn's instincts and his conscience"
        • "juvenile delinquent"
        • "white trash"
      • "in rejecting the 'deformed conscience' of the civilised world, he has instead, aligned himself with the 'good heart' of a mature human being"
    • Adventure
      • "his journey down the Mississippi is a symbol, representing the traditional rite of passage, the movement from boy to man"
    • Prejudice
      • "Huck does not transcend racism, which would historically be unlikely"
        • Society
          • Morality
            • Steven Mintz (Rethinking Huck)
              • "the extent to which individual and collective morality can be at odds"
              • "At the novel's very heart lies the conflict between Huck Finn's instincts and his conscience"
              • "juvenile delinquent"
              • "white trash"
            • "in rejecting the 'deformed conscience' of the civilised world, he has instead, aligned himself with the 'good heart' of a mature human being"
    • Society
      • Lies and Deceit
        • Sanford Pinsker
          • "Truth, in short, is one of those word - slippery, troublesome, but nonetheless, of great importance"
        • Lionel Trilling
          • Huck and Tom Sawyer do not "tell the ultimate lie of adults: they do not lie to themselves"
    • Chris Sandford (Deconstructing Huck)
      • "his journey down the Mississippi is a symbol, representing the traditional rite of passage, the movement from boy to man"
      • "clash between his confused social decency and his need to escape"
      • Nicolas Tredell (Voice, Identity, Race and Myth)
        • "Huck articulates attitudes and values that are at odds to those of respectable society"
          • "Huck does not transcend racism, which would historically be unlikely"
          • Chadwick Hansen
            • sees Jim as emerging from being "an insignificant ***** slave to becoming an abstraction of man"
            • Prejudice
            • William Phelps
              • Twain shows "both points of view; he shows us the beautiful side of slavery - for it had a wonderfully beautiful, patriarchal side - and he shows us the horror of it"
            • Sanford Pinsker
              • "Truth, in short, is one of those word - slippery, troublesome, but nonetheless, of great importance"
            • Lionel Trilling
              • Huck and Tom Sawyer do not "tell the ultimate lie of adults: they do not lie to themselves"
            • Leslie Gregory
              • "Twain's juxtaposition of Jim the minstrel and Jim the human being is reflective of the ambiguity of black humanity in the late 1800s"
            • Ralph Ellison
              • "It is from behind this stereotype mask that we see Jim's dignity and human complexity"

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