Making Mark Twain Work in the ClassroomJames S. Leonard Duke University Press, 1999 - 318 Seiten 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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... slave's skull and saw another slave , accused of raping a white woman , lynched in full view of a crowd . Once when a white man killed a black man for a trifling offense , people were not bothered about the slave but sympathized with ...
... slave's skull and saw another slave , accused of raping a white woman , lynched in full view of a crowd . Once when a white man killed a black man for a trifling offense , people were not bothered about the slave but sympathized with ...
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... slavery , miscegenation , honor , and loyalty . Many works by writers of color - such as Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ; Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass , An American Slave ...
... slavery , miscegenation , honor , and loyalty . Many works by writers of color - such as Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ; Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass , An American Slave ...
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... slave territory , which would even- tually strain the relative balance of free states to slave states since states formed from the newly acquired territory would most likely enter the Union as slave states and tip the balance toward a ...
... slave territory , which would even- tually strain the relative balance of free states to slave states since states formed from the newly acquired territory would most likely enter the Union as slave states and tip the balance toward a ...
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The Uses of the Last Twelve Chapters | |
An Approach to Teaching Twain | 31 |
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc in Todays Classroom | 55 |
Urheberrecht | |
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