Mark Twain马克吐温课件

Mark Twain 1835-1910

The Age of RealismThe period ranging from 1865 to l914 has been referred to as the Age of Realism in the 1iterary history of the United States, which is actually a movement or tendency that dominated the spirit of American literature, especially American fiction, from the 1850s onwards. Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism. Instead of thinking about the irrational, the imaginative, realists touched upon social and political realities and pressures in the post-Civil war society. Three dominant figures are William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and Henry James.

Local Colorism The works by local colorists are concerned with the life of a small, well--defined region or province. This kind of fiction depicts the characters from a specific setting or of an era, which are marked by its customs, dialects, costumes, landscape, or other peculiarities that have eacaped standardizing cultural influence. They worked from personal experience; they recorded the facts of a unique environment and suggested that the native life was shaped by the curious conditions of the locale. Writers whose works are characterized with local colors are Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, Joseph Kirkland and Hamlin Garland.

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Twain's real name wasSamuel Langhorne Clemens ."Mark Twain",which means"watermark two",was a call used by sailors on the Mississippi to warn shipmates that they were coming into shallow water.

origin1,一般认为这个笔名是源自 马克· 吐温 其早年水手术语，马克· 吐温的意思是：水 深12英尺，他曾当过领航员，与其伙伴测 量水深时，他的伙伴叫道“Mark Twain !”, 意思是“两个标记”,亦即水深两浔(1浔 约1.8米),这是轮船安全航行的必要条件. 2,他的船长塞勒斯，曾是位德高望重的领航 员，不时为报纸写些介绍密西西比河掌故 的小品，笔名“马克· 吐温”。

Samuel Langhorne Clemens 曾写文章讽刺过他。船长死后， 为表悼念，继承了这一笔名。

3指其在西部流浪时，经常在 酒店买酒两杯，并要求酒保 在帐单上记“两个标记”

Early Life

Printer’s apprentice Travelled widely A career on the river A licensed pilot An army volunteer A journalist 1 ,Mark Twain dealt largely with the lower strata of society.

2 ,an affirmative writer 3 ,contribution :localism in American fiction, and partly through his colloquial style. 4 ,Mark Twain preferred to represent social life through portraits of local places which he knew best. 5, Own experience. Mark twain managed to transform into art the freedom and

humor the finest elements of western culture. 6 Mark Twain was both a humorist and a social critics 7 Mark Twain was a friend of the Chinese.

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