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1 online resource (viii, 318 pages) : illustrations |
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Who's teaching Mark Twain, and how? / James S. Leonard -- From innocence to death: an approach to teaching Twain / Dennis W. Eddings -- Race and Mark Twain / S.D. Kapoor -- Personal recollections of Joan of Arc in today's classroom / Victoria Thorpe Miller -- Parody and satire as explorations of culture in The innocents abroad / James E. Caron -- Connecticut Yankee: Twain's other masterpiece / Lawrence I. Berkove -- A Connecticut Yankee in the postmodern classroom / James S. Leonard -- Opportunity keeps knocking: Mark Twain scholarship for the classroom / Louis J. Budd -- "Huckleberry fun" / Everett Carter -- Huck's helplessness: a reader's response to stupefied humanity / David E.E. Sloane -- Teaching Huckleberry Finn: the uses of the last twelve chapters / Pascal Covici, Jr. -- "Blame de pint? I reck'n I knows what I knows": Ebonics, Jim, and new approaches to understanding Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua -- The challenge of teaching Huckleberry Finn / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- Huck Finn's library: reading, writing, and intertextuality / Anthony J. Berret -- The relationship of Kemble's illustrations to Mark Twain's text: using pictures to teach Huck Finn / Beverly R. David -- Using audiovisual media to teach Huckleberry Finn / Wesley Britton -- High-tech Huck: teaching undergraduates by traditional methods and with computers / David Tomlinson -- The innocents abroad travels to freshman composition / Tom Reigstad -- On teaching Huck in the sophomore survey / Victor Doyno -- To justify the ways of Twain to students: teaching Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to culturally diverse students in an urban southern community college / Joseph A. Alvarez -- "Pretty ornery preaching": Huckleberry Finn in the church-related college / Stan Poole -- "When I read this book as a child ... the ugliness was pushed aside": adult students read and respond to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Michael J. Kiskis |
Summary |
How does one teach Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, a book as controversial as it is central to the American literary canon? This collection of essays edited by James S. Leonard offers practical classroom methods for instructors dealing with the racism, the casual violence, and the role of women, as well as with structural and thematic discrepancies in the works of Mark Twain. The essays in Making Mark Twain Work in the Classroom reaffirm the importance of Twain in the American literature curriculum from high school through graduate study. Addressing slavery and race, gender, class, religion, language and ebonics, Americanism, and textual issues of interest to instructors and their students, the contributors offer guidance derived from their own demographically diverse classroom experiences. Although some essays focus on such works as A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and The Innocents Abroad, most discuss the hotly debated Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, viewed alternately in this volume as a comic masterpiece or as evidence of Twain's growing pessimism--but always as an effective teaching tool. By placing Twain's work within the context of nineteenth-century American literature and culture, Making Mark Twain Work in the Classroom will interest all instructors of American literature. It will also provoke debate among Americanists and those concerned with issues of race, class, and gender as they are represented in literature. Contributors. Joseph A. Alvarez, Lawrence I. Berkove, Anthony J. Berret, S.J., Wesley Britton, Louis J. Budd, James E. Caron, Everett Carter, Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua, Pascal Covici Jr., Beverly R. David, Victor Doyno, Dennis W. Eddings, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, S.D. Kapoor, Michael J. Kiskis, James S. Leonard, Victoria Thorpe Miller, Stan Poole, Tom Reigstad, David E.E. Sloane, David Tomlinson |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Study and teaching
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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SUBJECT |
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Study and teaching
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 fast |
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain, Mark) fast |
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Literature and society -- History -- 19th century -- Study and teaching -- United States
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Social classes in literature -- Study and teaching
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Adventure stories, American -- Study and teaching
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Fugitive slaves in literature -- Study and teaching
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Sex role in literature -- Study and teaching
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Race in literature -- Study and teaching
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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EDUCATION -- Teaching Methods & Materials -- General.
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Adventure stories, American -- Study and teaching
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Literature and society -- Study and teaching
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Education
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United States
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History
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Electronic book
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Author |
Leonard, J. S. (James S.), editor.
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ISBN |
9780822397229 |
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0822397226 |
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