“Like setting down on a kag of powder and touching it off just to see where you’ll go to”: Reflections on Forty Years of Teaching Huckleberry Finn

IF 0.2 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN Mark Twain Annual Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI:10.5325/marktwaij.21.1.0135
John Bird
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Abstract A pedagogical essay reflecting on forty years of teaching Huckleberry Finn at both the high school and college level, recounting the author’s first experience teaching the novel, the expansion of the canon and the way that puts the novel in a broader context, and the importance of performing the dialect speech of various characters, modeling for students the way to read the novel for themselves. Even in perilous times for teaching controversial texts, the author suggests ways to teach Mark Twain’s masterpiece sensitively and effectively.
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《哈克贝利·费恩历事记》:“就像坐在一袋火药上,然后把它点燃,看看你会飞到哪里。
摘要:本文回顾了作者在高中和大学四十年来教授《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》的经历,叙述了作者第一次教授《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》的经历,叙述了经典的扩展和将小说置于更广阔的背景下的方式,以及表演各种人物方言的重要性,为学生树立了自己阅读小说的榜样。即使在教授有争议的文本的危险时期,作者也提出了敏感而有效地教授马克吐温的杰作的方法。
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Mark Twain Annual
Mark Twain Annual LITERATURE, AMERICAN-
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期刊介绍: The Mark Twain Annual publishes articles related to Mark Twain and those who surrounded him and serves as an outlet for new scholarship as well as new pedagogical approaches. It is the official publication of the Mark Twain Circle of America, an international association of people interested in the life and work of Mark Twain. The Circle encourages interest in Mark Twain and fosters the formal presentation of ideas about the author and his work, as well as the informal exchange of information among its members.
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