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Huckleberry Finn as idol and target : the functions of criticism in our time /

"If racially offensive epithets are banned from network airtime and the pages USA Today, Jonathan Arac asks, shouldn't fair hearing be given to those who protest their use in an eighth-grade classroom? Placing Mark Twain's comic and beloved masterpiece, Huckleberry Finn, in the contex...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Arac, Jonathan, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1997.
Colección:Wisconsin project on American writers.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Huckleberry Finn as Idol and Target
  • 2. All Right, Then, I'll Go to Hell: Historical Contexts for Chapter 31
  • 3. Forty Years of Controversy, 1957-1996
  • 4. Uncle Tom's Cabin vs. Huckleberry Finn: The Historians and the Critics
  • 5. Lionel Trilling: The Key Text in Context
  • 6. Nationalism and Hypercanonization
  • 7. Vernacular and Nationality: Comparative Contexts for Chapter 19
  • 8. Nation, Race, and Beyond
  • Coda: The Memories of Huckleberry Finn.