Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Introduction To "The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn" "Huck Finn" And The Picaresque: The story of Huck Finn's adventurous journey down the Mississippi River on a raft is really a series of short adventures. This is the kind of plot that is known in literature as episodic. Each event is an episode, a self-contained little story. Plots like this are characteristic of a certain kind of novel, the picaresque novel. (This type of novel had its beginning in Spain during the sixteenth century. Among the first of these novels is one called Lazarillo de Tormes.) To say that Huc...
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