Dear Hal: Sorry, I should have realized that among a group of Twain scholars, all of you would be familiar with the novel's flaws. I guess my post seemed foolish to the Forum readers. In retrospect, your humor/irony should've been apparent. Anyway, no big deal. Often, I've found some of life's best lessons are learned when one makes a fool of oneself ;-) Steve Hoffman Takoma Park MD On 5/7/2014 8:47 AM, Hal Bush wrote: > 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] > <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[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. > >> > >> > >> On 5/5/14 3:39 PM, "John Bird" > <[log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: > >> > >>> Once again, I will be writing the > chapter on Mark Twain for American =3D > >>> Literary Scholarship, reviewing all the > Twain scholarship for the year = > >> =3D > >>> 2013. If you had an article or book > published in 2013, please send me =3D > >>> links to articles, copies of articles, > or have the publisher send me =3D > >>> book copies. Email and mailing address > below. Thanks! (I will most =3D > >>> likely do this again for 2014, so if you > have something this year, send = > >> =3D > >>> along!) > >>> =20 > >>> [log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]> or > >>> [log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > >>> =20 > >>> Department of English > >>> 250 Bancroft > >>> Winthrop University > >>> Rock Hill, SC 29733 > >>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >>> John Bird > >>> [log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > > > > > > > > > -- > Prof. Harold K. Bush > Professor of English > 3800 Lindell > Saint Louis University > St. Louis, MO 63108 > 314-977-3616 (w); 314-771-6795 (h) > <www.slu.edu/x23809.xml > <http://www.slu.edu/x23809.xml>>