Making Mark Twain work in the classroom
A collection of essays that 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. It also addresses slavery and race, gender, class, religion, language and ebonics, Americanism, and hoax.
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viii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780822322788, 9780822322979, 0822322781, 0822322978
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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
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