Premium Content Huckleberry Finn as a Picaresque Hero
By Jamee Pullins - November 03, 2002
Picaresque -- what a scary word. What can it mean? By definition, the word picaresque is an adjective, which describe a genre of prose fiction that depicts in realistic, often amusing detail about the adventures of a roguish hero of low social degree living by his or her wits in a lower class society. Within these novels, a picaresque hero is often…
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