Question: come back to the raft again huck honey pdf

title: Leslie Fiedler
text: Fiedler was offered a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University by the Rockefeller Foundation . He took a number of courses ( including F.O. Matthiessen 's graduate seminar on modern American poetry & a foray into Old Testament Hebrew ) and became involved in the Harvard Poetry Society . Fiedler 's first critical work appeared in 1948 and came about from his habit of reading American novels to his sons . The essay appeared in Partisan Review ( enabled by Fiedler 's recent acquaintance with Delmore Schwartz ) and was the subject of debate . `` Come Back to the Raft Ag'in , Huck Honey ! '' argued a recurrent theme in American literature was an unspoken or implied homoerotic relationship between men , using Huckleberry Finn and Jim as examples . Pairs of men flee for wilderness rather than remain in the civilizing and domesticated world of women . Fiedler also deals with this male bonding in Love and Death in the American Novel ( 1960 ) , Waiting for the End ( 1964 ) and The Return of the Vanishing American ( 1968 ) .