Way back when, the material was a reality, why is it not appropriate now? When Mark Twain wrote his infamous novel, the language he used was the common vernacular of that time. That was the way of life back then, they don’t always say things like we would like them to. History is not something that we can change, only learn from. Literature is to be cherished, not destroyed. Ernest Hemingway wrote once “All modern American Literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called ‘Huckleberry Finn.’ ” That one iconic book has been banned and censored; now updated and “improved.” Novels are reproduced in a “postmodernist” approach to connect better with readers. Jerome McGann and Peter Shillingsburg’s work in particular has prompted the “postmodernist” style. The editor is not producing the “best text of a given work” but instead to generate something for the reader to understand as fully as possible. Literary creativity is taken away when the material is altered in a way to diminish its literary value. The traditional way the story was written is stolen when the new author brings a fresh
Way back when, the material was a reality, why is it not appropriate now? When Mark Twain wrote his infamous novel, the language he used was the common vernacular of that time. That was the way of life back then, they don’t always say things like we would like them to. History is not something that we can change, only learn from. Literature is to be cherished, not destroyed. Ernest Hemingway wrote once “All modern American Literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called ‘Huckleberry Finn.’ ” That one iconic book has been banned and censored; now updated and “improved.” Novels are reproduced in a “postmodernist” approach to connect better with readers. Jerome McGann and Peter Shillingsburg’s work in particular has prompted the “postmodernist” style. The editor is not producing the “best text of a given work” but instead to generate something for the reader to understand as fully as possible. Literary creativity is taken away when the material is altered in a way to diminish its literary value. The traditional way the story was written is stolen when the new author brings a fresh