- Paperback: 328 pages
- Publisher: Duke University Press (May 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0822322978
- ISBN-13: 978-0822322979
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.4 x 0.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 499 g
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"As someone who taught Mark Twain for almost forty years, I flattered myself by thinking I knew what I was doing. Yet I can say without hesitation that, whatever I thought I knew, I was much instructed by "Making Mark Twain Work in the Classroom". This book is a significant addition to the mass of materials available on Mark Twain."--James M. Cox, Dartmouth College
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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, as well as with structural and thematic discrepancies in the works of Mark Twain.
Addressing slavery and race, gender, class, religion, language and ebonics, Americanism, hoax, and textual issues of interest to instructors and their students, the contributors offer guidance derived from their own demographically diverse classroom experiences.
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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A Helpful Resource For Using Twain in the Classroom, Feb 23 2012
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Editor James S. Leonard does an excellent job of compiling essays and other writings from more than twenty scholars (including his own essay "'A Connecticut Yankee' in the Postmodern Classroom").The book is divided into three distinct sections: "Discovering Mark Twain, ""Rediscovering 'Huckleberry Finn,'" and "Playing to the Audience." The majority of the book focuses on "Huck Finn," with all of section two devoted to this American classic (118 pages in all), and four of the five essays in section three. Since my primary purpose for purchasing this book was to provide me with some guidance to teaching the novel to high school sophomores, I found the emphasis on "Huck Finn" very helpful.
The first essay I read was "The Challenge of Teaching 'Huckleberry Finn,'" by Shelley Fisher Fishkin (author of "Was Huck Black?"). Her opening paragraph made it sound like teaching the novel would be a daunting task--and it is. But she offered practical strategies for approaching this controversial book.
Another essay that I found extremely helpful was Beverly R. David's "The Reltionship of Kemble's Illustrations to Mark Twain's Tesxt: Using Pictures." This essay is what convinced me to quit using the Bantam paperback edition and switch to the (inexpensive) Dover hardcover edition with all 174 original illustrations.
In addition, there are essays on several other of Twain's works: "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc," "The Innocents Abroad," and "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court."
If you are teaching "Huck Finn" in the classroom, you will find much of this book helpful. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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