| Description |
xi, 257 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Critical responses in arts and letters, 1057-0993 ; no. 1 |
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Critical responses in arts and letters,
1057-0993 ; no. 1.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-251) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Early responses -- Mark Twain in a dilemma - a victim of a joke he thinks the most unkindest cut of all -- Estes & Lauriat lawsuit -- The Concord Library Committee's banning of Huckleberry Finn -- The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / [attributed to Brander Matthews] -- Huckleberry Finn -- Modern comic literature / [attributed to Andrew Lang] -- Mark Twain / [T[homas] S[ergeant] Perry -- Part II. Criticism 1930-1959 -- Huckleberry Finn is fifty years old - yes; but is he respectable? / Asa Don Dickinson -- Books in general / V.S. Pritchett -- Come back to the raft ag'in, Huck honey! / Leslie Fiedler -- Introduction / T.S. Eliot -- Mr. Eliot, Mr. Trilling, and Huckleberry Finn / Leo Marx -- Part III. Criticism 1960-1985 -- A sound heart and a deformed conscience / Henry Nash Smith -- The raft episode in Huckleberry Finn / Peter G. Beidler -- The form of freedom in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Alan Trachtenberg -- The paradox of liberation in Huckleberry Finn / Neil Schmitz -- Was Huckleberry Finn written? / Walter Blair -- The dialects in Huckleberry Finn / David Carkeet -- Mark Twain, Huck Finn, and Jacob Blivens : gilt-edged, tree-calf morality in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Harold H. Kolb, Jr. -- The making of a humorist : the narrative strategy of Huckleberry Finn / Barry A. Marks -- Huckleberry Finn is offensive / John H. Wallace -- "Sivilizing" Huck Finn / Roger Sutton -- Huckleberry Finn : literature or racist trash? -- Reagan and Huck Finn : the Twain meet the President defends the values of an American classic / Lawrence Feinberg -- Part IV. Centennial celebration -- Huck Finn : 100 years of durn fool problems / Lou Willett Stanek -- Huck at 100 / Leo Marx -- Further adventures of Huckleberry Finn / David Heim -- A hard book to take / James M. Cox -- Part V. Contemporary criticism -- Run, nigger, run / Harold Beaver -- The recomposition of adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Louis J.Budd -- The characterization of Jim in Huckleberry Finn / Forrest G. Robinson -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Tom Quirk -- Mark Twain and the fires of controversy : teaching racially-sensitive literature: or, "Say that 'N' word and out you go!" / Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua -- Critical views on adaptations of Huckleberry Finn / Laurie Champion. |
| Subject |
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character)
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| Indexed Term |
English fiction Children's stories |
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United States |
| Added Author |
Champion, Laurie.
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| ISBN |
0313275750 alkaline paper |
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