it's irony, Steve.  i.e. a joke, or perhaps failed humor.  I believe most
folks on the LIST are pretty familiar with those arguments...

ps:  if you really want to see a scathing review of the flaws of AHF, check
out Jane Smiley's notorious review in Harper's, circa 1996.

-hb


On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Steve Hoffman
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> What's so shocking about that?
>
> Many readers of Huck Finn would argue the last
> section of the book (once Tom Sawyer comes in and
> starts running the show) is quite flawed, for a
> variety of reasons!!!!!!
> And I count myself among them.
>
> Many an astute reader of that great novel have
> been disappointed by the turns the story takes
> once Tom Sawyer sort of takes over from Huck Finn.
>
> -Steve Hoffman
> (no academic credentials, just a lay-person
> Twainiac in Takoma Park MD)
>
> On 5/6/2014 12:10 PM, Hal Bush wrote:
> > Tom:  "The Flawed Greatness of Huckleberry Finn"??  "Flawed"? ? ? -- you
> > must be joking here ... -hb
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Quirk, Thomas V. <[log in to unmask]
> >wrote:
> >
> >> John, I did have one essay:  =B3The Flawed Greatness of Huckleberry
> Finn.=
> >> =B2
> >> American Literary Realism 45:1 (Fall 2013) 2: 38-48.  I don't know the
> >> electronic link.
> >>
> >>
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> >>
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