{"id":28301,"date":"2011-12-01T13:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=28301"},"modified":"2011-12-01T13:00:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T18:00:43","slug":"huckleberry-finn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/12\/01\/huckleberry-finn\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The first edition of <\/em>Huckleberry Finn, 1885.<\/p>\n

Yesterday was Mark Twain<\/a>‘s 176th birthday. Huckleberry Finn <\/em>seems to have been a treasured text from Frye’s youth. He noted that his personally favorite<\/a> archetypal theme was katabasis<\/em>, or descent, and Tom Sawyer<\/em>\u00a0(the protagonist for whom Frye appears to have had an abiding distate) along with\u00a0Huckleberry Finn<\/em>\u00a0provide a powerful rendition of it. There’s a story, perhaps apocryphal but still interesting in itself, that Frye as a first year undergrad at Victoria College wrote home to have his copy of Huckleberry Finn<\/em>\u00a0shipped to him because the copy he had didn’t fall open at the right places.<\/p>\n

There are any number of quotes to be culled from Frye on the novel, but this one from “<\/em>National Consciousness in Canadian Culture,” is especially resonant, with Twain’s birthday in mind:<\/p>\n

Everyone quotes the penultimate line in\u00a0Huckleberry Finn<\/em>\u00a0about lighting out for the Territory, but less attention is paid to the even more significant last sentence: “I been there before.” There can be no creative return to the past; the past is absorbed into the future. . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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