- Leslie Fiedler Obituary (2003) - San Diego, CA - San Diego Union-Tribune
His most famous essay, " Come Back to the Raft Again Huck, Honey, " argued that there was a homoerotic relationship between Huck Finn and Jim not a standard interpretation in Eisenhower-era
- How a Literary Critic Slapped Me Awake - Talking Writing
His “Come Back to the Raft” was originally published in 1948 in the Partisan Review, decades before I’d heard of it, and the title refers, of course, to Huckleberry Finn and that famous rafting trip down the Mississippi River with his friend, the escaped slave Jim
- Love and Death in the American Novel, by Leslie Fiedler
Neither is the chapter on Huck Finn about innocent homosexuality It is about a condition that Fiedler rather awkwardly calls “outsidedness,” and about the mystery of Twain’s success in evoking a complete being, in expressing at certain moments an extraordinarily full image of a single life
- Books: The Nasty Story - TIME
Author Leslie Fiedler, previously famed as the critic who detected homosexual themes in Huckleberry Finn and Moby Dick, has now carried his war against fiction behind the enemy’s lines
- Come Back to the Raft Agin, Ed Gentry - JSTOR
The novel's suggestion that there is no time of innocence, no unscripted self, to which one can return, carries with it an implied criticism of the na?ve optimism of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, especially as read by Fiedler, most likely a criticism that Dickey did not consciously intend
- Leslie Fiedlers literary criticism broke ground
He burst on the scene in 1948 with "Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey," an essay that focused on the interracial friendship between Huck, a teenage white boy, and Jim, an older black
- Leslie Fiedler at Montana State University
I was taking a course on "The Nineteenth Century American Novel," and the professor had assigned the Norton Critical Edition of Mark Twain's classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Project MUSE - Come Back to the Raft Agin, Ed Gentry
In his controversial essay "Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey!" (1948), Leslie Fiedler sees in tales of men alone in the wilderness an archetype of American experience
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