Huck Finn's Library: Reading, Writing, and Intertextuality

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Who's Teaching Mark Twain, and How? 1
5. I Discovering Mark Twain
6. From Innocence to Death: An Approach to Teaching Twain 31
7. Race and Mark Twain 40
8. Personal Recollections of loan of Arc in Today's Classroom 55
9. Parody and Satire as Explorations of Culture in The Innocents Abroad 65
10. Connecticut Yankee: Twain's Other Masterpiece 88
11. A Connecticut Yankee in the Postmodern Classroom 110
12. Opportunity Keeps Knocking: Mark Twain Scholarship for the Classroom 121
13. II Rediscovering Huckleberry Finn
14. "Huckleberry Fun" 131
15. Huck's Helplessness: A Reader's Response to Stupefied Humanity 140
16. Teaching Huckleberry Finn: The Uses of the Last Twelve Chapters 153
17. "Blame de pint! I reck'n I knows what I knows./I Ebonies, Jim, and New Approaches to Understanding Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 164
18. The Challenge of Teaching Huckleberry Finn 182
19. Huck Finn's Library: Reading, Writing, and Intertextuality 200
20. The Relationship of Kemble's Illustrations to Mark Twain's Text: Using Pictures to Teach Huck Finn 216
21. Using Audiovisual Media to Teach Huckleberry Finn 230
22. High-Tech Huck: Teaching Undergraduates by Traditional Methods and with Computers 237
23. III Playing to the Audience
24. The Innocents Abroad Travels to Freshman Composition 249
25. On Teaching Huck in the Sophomore Survey 257
26. To Justify the Ways of Twain to Students: Teaching Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to Culturally Diverse Students in an Urban Southern Community College 268
27. "Pretty Ornery Preaching": Huckleberry Finn in the Church-Related College 280
28. "When I read this book as a child ... the ugliness was pushed aside": Adult Students Read and Respond to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 292
29. Contributors 309
30. Index 313