Good lord. I didn't know Alan was doing this but I guess it doesn't surprise me. It generates a lot of talk though doesn't it? Seems like it would make a good classroom discussion. (Although, I tried to get my CORE class to discuss the violence over the Danish cartoons of Muhammed and I got a lot of shrugging - like, what's the big deal? So maybe I'm not a judge of what makes for a good classroom discussion. It seemed like Worlds Colliding to me.) I tried to look at all the comments to see if we knew anyone but I ran out of steam. On purely aesthetic grounds the thought of this sort of thing makes me cringe. I can hear the dialogue in my head and I know I'd be mumbling and swearing to myself as I went along, mentally re-inserting the original. On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Michael Kiskis <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > A former student sent me this link to a story about a new edition of Huck > -- > to be edited by Alan Gribben. If you read the story, scroll down to read > the variety of comments. > > > http://shelf-life.ew.com/2011/01/03/huckleberry-finn-n-word-censor-edit/?hpt=T2 > > -- > Michael J. Kiskis > Leonard Tydings Grant Professor of American Literature > Elmira College > One Park Place > Elmira, NY 14901 > -- Mark Woodhouse Head of Technical Services College and Mark Twain Archivist Elmira College One Park Place Elmira NY 14901 607 735 1869