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"A wonderful tool. This volume offers a wealth of resources from a range of critical perspectives."--Steven Mailloux, University of California, Irvine
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Who's Teaching Mark Twain, and How? / James S. Leonard
I. Discovering Mark Twain
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
II. Rediscovering
Huckleberry Finn "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, S. J.
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
III. Playing to the Audience
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
Contributors
Index
About the author
James S. Leonard, ed.
Summary
How does one teach Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn", a book as controversial as it is central to the American literary canon? This book offers practical classroom methods for instructors dealing with the racism, and the role of women, as well as with structural and thematic discrepancies in the works of Mark Twain.
