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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Mark Twain's Techniques of Humor in <i>Huckleberry Finn</i>

Knowlton, William H. January 1951 (has links)
No description available.
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Overturning the Notion of White Supremacy in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Westin, Anna-Karin January 2012 (has links)
This essay discusses how Mark Twain in the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn uses the description of the white American Christian civilization in order to overturn the colonial notion of white supremacy. This is done through juxtaposing the characterization of the people of the white American civilization and the people that are alienated or ‘other’. The Grangerford family, the Widow and Miss Watson, and Colonel Sherburn are brought up as examples of the white American civilization’s hypocrisy and double standard in the novel. The analysis focuses on how these supposedly Christian characters do not follow the Christian ethics and sermon teaching even though they claim to do so. The colonial notion of the white western civilization’s supremacy over other people’s societies is thus overturned by Twain’s description of the immorality of this white American society. As opposed to this, the people who are outside of this society and who do not label themselves as Christians, prove to be those who in reality follow the Christian notion of brotherly love towards everybody, no matter the social standing or skin color of the person in need. Furthermore, Huck’s moral fight whether or not he should continue to help the runaway slave Jim to freedom or turn him in to the slave owner Miss Watson, is crucial. Through the portrait of this inner struggle, Twain pinpoints the absurdity of the supremacy of such an immoral law. The law of society was upheld with an almost religious devotion, and the irony in this works to further overturn the notion of the white American civilization’s supremacy.
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A sivilização-civilização de Huckleberry Finn: uma proposta de tradução / The civilization-sivilization of Huckleberry Finn: a translation proposal

Ramos, Vera Lúcia 19 February 2009 (has links)
As Aventuras de Huckleberry Finn (1885), obra-prima de Mark Twain, apresenta uma narrativa denunciadora do racismo de sua época e, para tanto, ele dá a suas personagens, e inclusive ao narrador, uma voz até então não comum na literatura norte-americana: os dialetos literários representantes da condição social, étnica e lingüística das personagens. Assim, todas elas de alguma forma usam um dialeto desviado do culto, mostrando uma relação estreita entre nãopadrão e fuga da civilização. A recepção da obra causou muita polêmica tanto na época de sua publicação quanto em outros períodos, sendo o livro por várias vezes proibido de estar nas prateleiras de alguma biblioteca ou de fazer parte do currículo das escolas norte-americanas. As edições em português do Brasil seguem a tradição da tradução de clássicos, isto é, de ignorar os dialetos e usar em seus lugares a língua culta. No entanto, há um explanatório, no corpo do texto, no qual Twain explica o porquê do uso dos sete dialetos criados. Dessa forma, os tradutores têm tomado a posição de ignorar o explanatório juntamente com os dialetos, para não expor aos leitores essa problemática do original, ou ainda a posição de traduzir o explanatório e justificar-se com o leitor a respeito do uso de uma linguagem padrão. Este trabalho visa a refletir acerca das implicações no uso dos dialetos literários no original e na tradução, assim como da supressão deles em três traduções brasileiras. Além disso, propõe-se a não sivilizar Huckleberry apresentando uma possível tradução com dialetos para cinco capítulos. Dessa forma, julgou-se ter respeitado o texto de Twain, assim como um aspecto importante e conhecido de seu pensamento: o repúdio à civilização e seus benefícios. / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Mark Twains masterpiece, presents a narrative that denounces the racism of its era and, to that end, gives its characters including its narrator a voice until then uncommon in North-American literature: a literary dialect representative of the social, ethnic, and linguistic conditions of [each] character. As such, each in some manner uses a dialect that diverges from the cultured norm, showing a close relationship between nonconformity and a distancing from civilization. At the time of its publication and in other eras, the book caused much controversy, often being banned from the library shelves or from being included in North-American school curricula. Brazilian Portuguese editions follow the tradition for classics, i.e., they ignore dialects and use refined language instead. However, the body of the text contains an explanatory in which Twain explains the motive for the use of the seven dialects he created in writing. As such, translators have taken the position of ignoring the explanatory together with the dialects so as not to reveal this difficulty of the original to the reader, or even of translating the explanatory and justifying themselves to the reader for the use of standard language [in the translated version]. The present work seeks to reflect on the use of literary dialects in the original and the translation, as well as on their suppression in three Brazilian translations. Furthermore, it proposes not sivilizing Huckleberry, offering a possible translation with dialects for five chapters. In this manner it proposes to have respected Twains text as well as an important and recognized aspect of his thinking: the repudiation of civilization and its benefits.
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A sivilização-civilização de Huckleberry Finn: uma proposta de tradução / The civilization-sivilization of Huckleberry Finn: a translation proposal

Vera Lúcia Ramos 19 February 2009 (has links)
As Aventuras de Huckleberry Finn (1885), obra-prima de Mark Twain, apresenta uma narrativa denunciadora do racismo de sua época e, para tanto, ele dá a suas personagens, e inclusive ao narrador, uma voz até então não comum na literatura norte-americana: os dialetos literários representantes da condição social, étnica e lingüística das personagens. Assim, todas elas de alguma forma usam um dialeto desviado do culto, mostrando uma relação estreita entre nãopadrão e fuga da civilização. A recepção da obra causou muita polêmica tanto na época de sua publicação quanto em outros períodos, sendo o livro por várias vezes proibido de estar nas prateleiras de alguma biblioteca ou de fazer parte do currículo das escolas norte-americanas. As edições em português do Brasil seguem a tradição da tradução de clássicos, isto é, de ignorar os dialetos e usar em seus lugares a língua culta. No entanto, há um explanatório, no corpo do texto, no qual Twain explica o porquê do uso dos sete dialetos criados. Dessa forma, os tradutores têm tomado a posição de ignorar o explanatório juntamente com os dialetos, para não expor aos leitores essa problemática do original, ou ainda a posição de traduzir o explanatório e justificar-se com o leitor a respeito do uso de uma linguagem padrão. Este trabalho visa a refletir acerca das implicações no uso dos dialetos literários no original e na tradução, assim como da supressão deles em três traduções brasileiras. Além disso, propõe-se a não sivilizar Huckleberry apresentando uma possível tradução com dialetos para cinco capítulos. Dessa forma, julgou-se ter respeitado o texto de Twain, assim como um aspecto importante e conhecido de seu pensamento: o repúdio à civilização e seus benefícios. / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Mark Twains masterpiece, presents a narrative that denounces the racism of its era and, to that end, gives its characters including its narrator a voice until then uncommon in North-American literature: a literary dialect representative of the social, ethnic, and linguistic conditions of [each] character. As such, each in some manner uses a dialect that diverges from the cultured norm, showing a close relationship between nonconformity and a distancing from civilization. At the time of its publication and in other eras, the book caused much controversy, often being banned from the library shelves or from being included in North-American school curricula. Brazilian Portuguese editions follow the tradition for classics, i.e., they ignore dialects and use refined language instead. However, the body of the text contains an explanatory in which Twain explains the motive for the use of the seven dialects he created in writing. As such, translators have taken the position of ignoring the explanatory together with the dialects so as not to reveal this difficulty of the original to the reader, or even of translating the explanatory and justifying themselves to the reader for the use of standard language [in the translated version]. The present work seeks to reflect on the use of literary dialects in the original and the translation, as well as on their suppression in three Brazilian translations. Furthermore, it proposes not sivilizing Huckleberry, offering a possible translation with dialects for five chapters. In this manner it proposes to have respected Twains text as well as an important and recognized aspect of his thinking: the repudiation of civilization and its benefits.
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Mark Twain's Southern Trilogy: Reflections of the Ante-Bellum Southern Experience

Robinson, Jimmy Hugh 08 1900 (has links)
The purpose of this study is to explore Mark Twain's involvement with the southern ante-bellum experience as reflected in his Southern Trilogy, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade), and Pudd'nhead Wilson. He came to denounce the South more and more vehemently in these novels, and each occupies a critical position in his artistic and philosophical growth.
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Será Huckleberry Finn mesmo um romance racista?: uma análise da obra, de algumas de suas traduções e do discurso racial no século XIX em narrativas sobre escravos sob a luz da Linguística de Corpus / Is Huckleberry Finn really a racist novel?: an analysis of the work, some of its translations and racial discourse in the XIXth century narratives on slaves in the light of Corpus Linguistics

Ramos, Vera Lúcia 27 March 2018 (has links)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) de Mark Twain (1835-1910) tem estado de modo frequente na berlinda. Em cada época, desde o seu lançamento, a proibição da obra, nas bibliotecas e escolas, foi motivada pelas temáticas tratadas, pelos dialetos criados ou pela reiteração da palavra nigger(s). No Brasil, as traduções da obra fazem parte do nosso Polissistema Literário de Tradução desde 1934 (Monteiro Lobato). Visto que a obra foi lançada há mais de cem anos, muitos têm se dedicado a ela, a fim de discutir suas principais controvérsias. Esta pesquisa visa a apresentar algo diferente na forma de analisar os dados da obra e de quatro de suas traduções. Para tanto, elegeu-se a Linguística de Corpus (LC) como metodologia e principal abordagem, pois a LC oferece a possibilidade de investigar uma grande quantidade de dados por meio eletrônico (WordSmith Tools, Scott, 2006), assegura precisão na apresentação das informações, e também mostra dados não detectados a olho nu pelo analista. Dessa forma, esta pesquisa apresenta um estudo dirigido pelo corpus embasado na lista de palavras-chave que detectou nigger(s) como a palavra mais relevante. A partir desse dado, delineou-se o objetivo geral do estudo que é verificar a importância que o termo nigger(s) assume na caracterização dos negros em Huckleberry Finn por meio do discurso racial, investigando o campo semântico racismo/escravidão. Para tanto, julgou-se necessário buscar na literatura de língua inglesa obras do século XIX (nove narrativas sobre escravos) que também empregaram o termo nigger(s), a fim de comparar as narrativas e a obra de Twain e verificar (des)semelhanças na construção do discurso racial. Por ser nigger um termo culturalmente marcado e os tradutores brasileiros o traduzirem por um vocábulo neutro (negro ou escravo), decidiu-se investigar obras brasileiras do século XIX (em número de seis) sobre a escravidão, a fim de entender a (não) existência de um vocábulo que se aproxime da carga semântica de nigger, com o intuito de confrontar os termos usados pelos autores brasileiros com aqueles usados pelos tradutores. Assim sendo, a tese a ser demonstrada é que Huckleberry Finn, embora use nigger(s) reiteradamente, caracteriza os negros de forma positiva, subvertendo o discurso racial, e emprega nigger(s) com o fim de mostrar como a sociedade estadunidense do século XIX tratava os negros de forma negativa. As obras brasileiras analisadas revelaram um termo para representar os negros, crioulo, cuja prosódia é negativa; porém os tradutores não fazem uso desse termo, possivelmente pelo fato de as normas do nosso Polissistema Literário, ligadas ao grau de aceitabilidade (TOURY, 1995) da tradução, imporem uma reescritura consoante com o discurso politicamente correto de nossos dias. Esta tese ainda tem o papel de mostrar a contribuição inestimável da LC para os estudos literários, uma vez que foi possível, por meio das linhas de concordância, apresentar análises impraticáveis de serem realizadas sem tal metodologia, em função da exiguidade do tempo da pesquisa (quatro anos), do número de obras analisadas (vinte) e do recorte escolhido, o campo semântico, difícil de ser investigado a olho nu. / Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), written by Mark Twain (1835-1910), has been frequently in the spotlight. Since it was published, the prohibition to use the book imposed on libraries and schools has been caused by the issues Twain addressed, the dialects he created and his repeated use of the word nigger(s).The translations of Huckleberry Finn have been part of Brazils Translation Literary Polysystem since 1934, when a Portuguese version was published by Monteiro Lobato. Given that Mark Twains work came out more than one hundred years ago, many people have dedicated themselves to studying it in order to discuss its main controversial topics. The purpose of our research is to propose a different manner of analyzing Huckleberry Finns data and four of its translations into Portuguese. To that end, we have chosen Corpus Linguistics (CL) as our work methodology and main approach, because it offers the possibility of investigating a large amount of data by electronic tools (WordSmith Tools, Scott, 2006) which ensures the accuracy of the information presented by the analyst and shows data not detected with the naked eye. Therefore, this research consists of a corpus-driven study grounded in a list of key words, which revealed that the most relevant word was nigger(s) These data have allowed us to set the overall purpose of the study, namely to find out the importance of the word nigger(s) for Mark Twains depiction of the Black characters of Huckleberry Finn in his racial discourse, through our exploration of the racism/slavery semantic field. For that purpose, we found it necessary to search for works in English Literature written in the 19th century (nine narratives on slaves) that also used the word nigger(s). The purpose was to compare those narratives with Twains novel and check for similarities and differences in their construction of racial discourse. Because nigger is a culturally marked word and Brazilian translators use a neuter word to translate it (negro or escravo) we decided to dig into Brazilian works on slavery written in the 19th century (six of them) in order to understand the (in)existence of a word whose semantic content approximates that of the word nigger and to contrast the words used by Brazilian authors against those used by translators. The Brazilian works that we analyzed have revealed a word used to depict Black people, crioulo, which has a negative prosody; however, translators do not use this word, maybe because the standards of Brazils Literary Polysystem, linked to the translations level of acceptability (TOURY, 1995) impose a rewriting in tune with the current politically correct discourse. This PhD dissertation also aims at showing the remarkable contribution of Corpus Linguistics to literary studies, given that concordance lines have allowed us to carry out analyses that would have been impossible if this methodology had not been applied, considering the little time we had for conducting the research (four years), the number of literary works we examined (twenty) and the semantic field, which cannot be investigated with the naked eye.
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Será Huckleberry Finn mesmo um romance racista?: uma análise da obra, de algumas de suas traduções e do discurso racial no século XIX em narrativas sobre escravos sob a luz da Linguística de Corpus / Is Huckleberry Finn really a racist novel?: an analysis of the work, some of its translations and racial discourse in the XIXth century narratives on slaves in the light of Corpus Linguistics

Vera Lúcia Ramos 27 March 2018 (has links)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) de Mark Twain (1835-1910) tem estado de modo frequente na berlinda. Em cada época, desde o seu lançamento, a proibição da obra, nas bibliotecas e escolas, foi motivada pelas temáticas tratadas, pelos dialetos criados ou pela reiteração da palavra nigger(s). No Brasil, as traduções da obra fazem parte do nosso Polissistema Literário de Tradução desde 1934 (Monteiro Lobato). Visto que a obra foi lançada há mais de cem anos, muitos têm se dedicado a ela, a fim de discutir suas principais controvérsias. Esta pesquisa visa a apresentar algo diferente na forma de analisar os dados da obra e de quatro de suas traduções. Para tanto, elegeu-se a Linguística de Corpus (LC) como metodologia e principal abordagem, pois a LC oferece a possibilidade de investigar uma grande quantidade de dados por meio eletrônico (WordSmith Tools, Scott, 2006), assegura precisão na apresentação das informações, e também mostra dados não detectados a olho nu pelo analista. Dessa forma, esta pesquisa apresenta um estudo dirigido pelo corpus embasado na lista de palavras-chave que detectou nigger(s) como a palavra mais relevante. A partir desse dado, delineou-se o objetivo geral do estudo que é verificar a importância que o termo nigger(s) assume na caracterização dos negros em Huckleberry Finn por meio do discurso racial, investigando o campo semântico racismo/escravidão. Para tanto, julgou-se necessário buscar na literatura de língua inglesa obras do século XIX (nove narrativas sobre escravos) que também empregaram o termo nigger(s), a fim de comparar as narrativas e a obra de Twain e verificar (des)semelhanças na construção do discurso racial. Por ser nigger um termo culturalmente marcado e os tradutores brasileiros o traduzirem por um vocábulo neutro (negro ou escravo), decidiu-se investigar obras brasileiras do século XIX (em número de seis) sobre a escravidão, a fim de entender a (não) existência de um vocábulo que se aproxime da carga semântica de nigger, com o intuito de confrontar os termos usados pelos autores brasileiros com aqueles usados pelos tradutores. Assim sendo, a tese a ser demonstrada é que Huckleberry Finn, embora use nigger(s) reiteradamente, caracteriza os negros de forma positiva, subvertendo o discurso racial, e emprega nigger(s) com o fim de mostrar como a sociedade estadunidense do século XIX tratava os negros de forma negativa. As obras brasileiras analisadas revelaram um termo para representar os negros, crioulo, cuja prosódia é negativa; porém os tradutores não fazem uso desse termo, possivelmente pelo fato de as normas do nosso Polissistema Literário, ligadas ao grau de aceitabilidade (TOURY, 1995) da tradução, imporem uma reescritura consoante com o discurso politicamente correto de nossos dias. Esta tese ainda tem o papel de mostrar a contribuição inestimável da LC para os estudos literários, uma vez que foi possível, por meio das linhas de concordância, apresentar análises impraticáveis de serem realizadas sem tal metodologia, em função da exiguidade do tempo da pesquisa (quatro anos), do número de obras analisadas (vinte) e do recorte escolhido, o campo semântico, difícil de ser investigado a olho nu. / Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), written by Mark Twain (1835-1910), has been frequently in the spotlight. Since it was published, the prohibition to use the book imposed on libraries and schools has been caused by the issues Twain addressed, the dialects he created and his repeated use of the word nigger(s).The translations of Huckleberry Finn have been part of Brazils Translation Literary Polysystem since 1934, when a Portuguese version was published by Monteiro Lobato. Given that Mark Twains work came out more than one hundred years ago, many people have dedicated themselves to studying it in order to discuss its main controversial topics. The purpose of our research is to propose a different manner of analyzing Huckleberry Finns data and four of its translations into Portuguese. To that end, we have chosen Corpus Linguistics (CL) as our work methodology and main approach, because it offers the possibility of investigating a large amount of data by electronic tools (WordSmith Tools, Scott, 2006) which ensures the accuracy of the information presented by the analyst and shows data not detected with the naked eye. Therefore, this research consists of a corpus-driven study grounded in a list of key words, which revealed that the most relevant word was nigger(s) These data have allowed us to set the overall purpose of the study, namely to find out the importance of the word nigger(s) for Mark Twains depiction of the Black characters of Huckleberry Finn in his racial discourse, through our exploration of the racism/slavery semantic field. For that purpose, we found it necessary to search for works in English Literature written in the 19th century (nine narratives on slaves) that also used the word nigger(s). The purpose was to compare those narratives with Twains novel and check for similarities and differences in their construction of racial discourse. Because nigger is a culturally marked word and Brazilian translators use a neuter word to translate it (negro or escravo) we decided to dig into Brazilian works on slavery written in the 19th century (six of them) in order to understand the (in)existence of a word whose semantic content approximates that of the word nigger and to contrast the words used by Brazilian authors against those used by translators. The Brazilian works that we analyzed have revealed a word used to depict Black people, crioulo, which has a negative prosody; however, translators do not use this word, maybe because the standards of Brazils Literary Polysystem, linked to the translations level of acceptability (TOURY, 1995) impose a rewriting in tune with the current politically correct discourse. This PhD dissertation also aims at showing the remarkable contribution of Corpus Linguistics to literary studies, given that concordance lines have allowed us to carry out analyses that would have been impossible if this methodology had not been applied, considering the little time we had for conducting the research (four years), the number of literary works we examined (twenty) and the semantic field, which cannot be investigated with the naked eye.
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A Window to Jim's Humanity: The Dialectic Between Huck and Jim in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Anderson, Erich R. 16 January 2009 (has links)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This thesis examines Mark Twain’s use of the dialectic between the characters Huck and Jim to illuminate Jim’s humanity in the classic novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Over the course of their adventure, Huck learns that Jim is a human being and not property. This realization leads Huck to choose to assist Jim in his escape from captivity, and risk eternal damnation according to his religious beliefs. Huck’s decision is driven by the friendship that develops between him and his fellow fugitive on their adventure. Jim’s kindness and stewardship also provide a stark contrast to the treachery of the characters on the banks of the river. Twain thus crafts a message that slavery and race discrimination are wrong without taking the tone of an abolitionist, combining an amusing children’s story with a profound social message. Although definitive proof of his intention to do so has never been found, human friendship is the sliver of common ground Twain used to reach across the profound racial gap in the United States in the late 19th century. The analysis takes place in four parts: (1) a comparison of AHF to other nineteenth century works that featured slavery to establish it as unique among those works; (2) an analysis of the aforementioned dialectic from a modern text of the novel featuring previous deleted parts from the early manuscript; (3) a review of the critical response to the novel which reveals that if Twain was trying to send a message of racial equality, he was not doing so overtly; and (4) a conclusion in which I posit that Twain found a creative solution to a social problem and cite critical discourse that notes Twain’s course of action. This yielded a work that was both more widely read and timeless than a work that confronted slavery directly. Chapters one, three and four utilize critical dialogue and history from print and digital sources. Jane E. Schultz, Ph.D., Professor
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Orality, Literacy, and Heroism in Huckleberry Finn

Barrow, William David, 1955- 08 1900 (has links)
This work re-assesses the heroic character of Huckleberry Finn in light of the inherent problems of discourse. Walter Ong's insights into the differences between oral and literate consciousnesses, and Stanley Fish's concept of "interpretive communities" are applied to Huck's interactions with the other characters, revealing the underlying dynamic of his character, the need for a viable discourse community. Further established, by enlisting the ideas of Ernest Becker, is that this need for community finds its source in the most fundamental human problem, the consciousness of death. The study concludes that the problematic ending of Twain's novel is consistent with the theme of community and is neither the artistic failure, nor the cynical pronouncement on the human race that so many critics have seen it to be.
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Vad betyder n-ordet för unga läsare? : Reaktioner på rasistiska tendenser i Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Sundholm, Mårten January 2013 (has links)
No description available.

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