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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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Leonard, J. S. (James S.) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999.
Temas:
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Study and teaching.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910. > Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain, Mark)
1800-1899
Literature and society > History > 19th century > Study and teaching > United States.
Social classes in literature > Study and teaching.
Adventure stories, American > Study and teaching.
Fugitive slaves in literature > Study and teaching.
Sex role in literature > Study and teaching.
Race in literature > Study and teaching.
Littérature et société > Histoire > 19e siècle > Étude et enseignement > États-Unis.
Classes sociales dans la littérature > Étude et enseignement.
Esclaves fugitifs dans la littérature > Étude et enseignement.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature > Étude et enseignement.
Race dans la littérature > Étude et enseignement.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
EDUCATION > Teaching Methods & Materials > General.
Adventure stories, American > Study and teaching
Literature and society > Study and teaching
Education
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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