Flowing
Part I Introduction The tongue of the river--riverine linguistics--is not a building up, like the erection of a grammatical system, but a licking away, a lingo of erosion. from "Roilings: The Riverine Linguistic of Arundhati Roy" Scholars have written brilliantly of the differences between life on the river and life on the shore in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Trilling; Shrubb; Banta; Hart). Others have discussed the patterns of lies and deceptions that interweave the narrative strands of the novel (Krauss; Monteiro; Bassett; Allingham). Some have concentrated on Huck's poetic and ungrammatical language (McKay; Thomas; Clerc), his relationship to parental surrogates (Stein and Lidston; Segal), and his psychological and moral perplexities (Harris; Barchilon and Kovel; Robinson). Still others have noted the thematic influence of the Mississippi on Twain's writing, of its strong role in linking his greatest novel with Life on the Mis...