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Was Huck Greek? The Odyssey of Mark Twain |
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Based on archival evidence, the essay suggests that Twain was conscious of the similarities between "Huckleberry Finn" and Homer's "Odyssey," and further suggests grounds for their comparison beyond apparent plot similarities. |
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Name: American Political Science Association
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| Deneen, Patrick. "Was Huck Greek? The Odyssey of Mark Twain" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2002 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66318_index.html> |
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| Deneen, P. J. , 2002-08-28 "Was Huck Greek? The Odyssey of Mark Twain" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66318_index.html |
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Abstract: Based on archival evidence, the essay suggests that Twain was conscious of the similarities between "Huckleberry Finn" and Homer's "Odyssey," and further suggests grounds for their comparison beyond apparent plot similarities. |
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| Was Huck Greek?: The Odyssey of Mark Twain Patrick J. Deneen Princeton University Since its publication Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been recognized as perhaps the consummate American novel. This assessment was articulated most famously and succinctly by Ernest Hemingway who declared that ``all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn ... it's the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that.'' 1 The critic William Lyon Phelps intoned |
| ``We may wait now with bated breath while Caesar reflects. Your fate and mine are involved in his decision'' (478). 41 It is worth noting that generations of scholars have tended to view the action of the Homeric epics as also driven by deterministic forces particularly cultural expectations on the heroes that disallowed them from acting freely. For a standard account of the absence of free choice among the Homeric heroes see Bruno Snell The Discovery of the Mind |
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