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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39787587 Title: Making Mark Twain work in the classroom Author: J S Leonard Publisher: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999. ISBN/ISSN: 0822322781 9780822322788 0822322978 9780822322979 OCLC:39787587

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Making Mark Twain work in the classroom

Author:	J S Leonard
Publisher:	Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	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 Read more...
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Subjects	Twain, Mark, -- 1835-1910 -- Study and teaching. Literature and society -- History -- 19th century -- Study and teaching -- United States. Twain, Mark, -- 1835-1910. -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. View all subjects
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Making Mark Twain work in the classroom. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607122116
Named Person:	Mark Twain; Mark Twain
Document Type:	Book
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ISBN:	0822322781 9780822322788 0822322978 9780822322979
OCLC Number:	39787587
Description:	viii, 318 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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 -- 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.
Responsibility:	edited by James S. Leonard.

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