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Demythification in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Scott Carpenter is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Demythification in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn about?
The opening passages of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn institute an unusual narrative perspective. The comfortable authority associated with the guiding narrator so ubiquitous in literature and so indispensable to a sense of direction yields to the naïve voice of an uncivilized boy, an outcast from society. Critics have variously attempted to deal with this situation. Some, such as George Carrington, in his study on the dramatic unity of the work, stress the importance of the narrator's alienation, the fact that Huck is a stranger to the society he depicts.1 Other Mark Twain scholars have been quick to point to the "dramatic irony" implied by this situation, in which the reader surpasses the narrator in his understanding and analysis of the events the novel recounts.2 All this marks a clear and substantial break from the immediate contextual precursor, Tom Sawyer, although the break is not clean. At the opening of the novel (and some have argued that the same holds true for its conclusion), Huck remains under Tom's domination and influence. Yet, given that both are "boyhood" novels, both in the genre of the Bildungsroman, and both penned by the same hand, the differences in their m
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- Author
- Scott Carpenter
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 1987
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)