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Title Making Mark Twain work in the classroom / edited by James S. Leonard.

Imprint Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1999.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  813.4 T911Dma 1999    ---  Available
Description viii, 318 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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 -- 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 -- Challenge of teaching Huckleberry Finn / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- Huck Finn's library : reading, writing, and intertextuality / Anthony J. Berret -- 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 -- 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.
Subject Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Study and teaching.
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Study and teaching.
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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.
Added Author Leonard, J. S. (James S.)
ISBN 0822322978 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0822322781 (acid-free paper)

 
    
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