Podcasts that mention 📚 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The plan was to take an American literary classic, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. It was my favorite novel, and set it to music with new songs by the country legend Roger Miller.

Rocco Landisman mentions adapting Mark Twain's novel Huckleberry Finn into a musical called Big River.

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For instance, consider a teacher teaching Mark Twain's 'Huckleberry Finn' where the word 'nigger' appears over 200 times.

Randall Kennedy discusses the complexities of using the n-word in education, using 'Huckleberry Finn' as a key example. He notes that teaching this particular book often leads to significant challenges for educators who may include excerpts from it.

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yeah I'm like same with like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

A host mentions 'Huckleberry Finn' in the context of debates around problematic language in classic literature.

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because I feel like I read that that there was some call to remove that word from Huckleberry Finn yeah that's what it says yeah it's like well remember the Chevy Chase routine with Richard Pryor yeah yeah [ __ ] yeah on SNL I mean it's it was interesting too there was a period of time where Quentin Tarantino had white people saying in his movies yeah well he said it a bunch of times in Pulp Fiction Alabama publisher says expurgation of more than 200 hurtful epithets uh will counter preemptive censorship that has seen Mark Twain's yeah okay it censors the n-word

Joe and Bert discuss an Alabama publisher replacing words in Mark Twain's book, identified as Huckleberry Finn.

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it became as regarded as a classic of American literature day up with kind of like Huck Finn or Catcher And arise stuff like that

Jann Wenner compares the status of Hunter S. Thompson's 'Vegas story' (novel) to classics like 'Huck Finn'.

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tom sawyer and huckleberry finn yeah i read all his books

The speaker mentions getting into 'Huckleberry Finn' along with 'Tom Sawyer'.

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like dr seuss mark twain wrote about like huckleberry finn

Mark Twain is mentioned as an author, alongside Dr. Seuss, and immediately linked to 'Huckleberry Finn'.

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they tried to well they i think they did successfully at least in some venues edit tom sawyer and huck finn because the n-word was used prolifically

Joe Rogan mentions the editing of "Tom Sawyer" and "Huck Finn" due to the use of a racial slur, discussing the importance of keeping the original text as a historical time capsule.

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they use the n-word all the time in in huckleberry

Discussion about the use of a controversial word in Mark Twain's book.

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and emotional reasoning is one of the things that led to the the trigger warnings and all these feelings of fragility and being unsafe in a class where we have to read Huckleberry Finn or something

The guest mentions 'Huckleberry Finn' as an example of a text that might receive trigger warnings in a class.

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because by taking the word out of Huck Finn well now you well that was a book that's it's not only stood the test of time but now you're altering the original meaning not to mention that Huck Finn was anti-racist book

The host mentions the book "Huck Finn" in the context of censorship and altering classic literature.

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You know, my buddy Spencer just wrote this great...I'll plug a book that's not my own! He just came out with this great book, 'Light of the Mind, Light of the World', which makes all of these points, and it does so beautifully!

Michael Knowles mentions his friend Spencer's book 'Light of the Mind, Light of the World', highlighting the book's exploration of higher power and its influence on the modern world. This mention occurs in a discussion about understanding atheism through human behavior.

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Just things that, you know, they thought they'd be reading Huckleberry Finn; they were like eight years, eight and six years old.

The speaker shares a story about her parents deciding to remove her brothers from school in the 1990s because they disagreed with the book selections. They preferred books like 'Huckleberry Finn', considering them more appropriate than the contemporary options available at the time.

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and he goes ah Huckleberry Finn and then he says see they knew this was offensive to you to the black man so they have to destroy this book

The speaker mentions the book 'Huckleberry Finn' as being depicted in the movie Fahrenheit 451 as a book considered offensive and subject to burning.

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