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1、Mark TwainA master of humor lifel1.Samuel Langhorne Clemenslwriter(realist,local colorist,humorist,satirist),social critic,lecturer2.Literary career:lstart as a teller of tall tales（荒诞故事）and local colorist and work his way into polite society,not forgetting his past frontier humorists：“tall tales”in

2、 which there was an obvious emphasis on local peculiarities of speech,dress and habits of thought and the presentation of native character typeslchanges in his writings:from an optimist and humorist to an almost despairing determinist Major Worksl“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”1865

3、 卡拉维拉斯县驰名的跳蛙(“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”or Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog”)(national attention)l The Gilded Age:A Tale of Today 1873 (in collaboration with Charles Dudley Warner)lThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876 lSequel:The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884 lThe Prince and t

4、he Pauper 1881lLife on the Mississippi 1883 lThe 1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories 1893 lA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court 1889 lThe Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 1900lThe Mysterious Stranger 1916lAutobiography 1924Thematic concerns:l1.social life of mostly the lower strata of socie

5、ty through portraits of local places he knew best(the Mississippi and the West)and the life with which he was familiar.l2.freedoml“I have never tried in even one single little instance to help cultivate the cultivated classes.I am not equipped for it,either by native gifts or training,and I never ha

6、d any ambition in that direction,but always hunted for bigger game the masses”Mark Twain.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1.story2.themesfreedom The journey down the Mississippi is both realistic and symbolic.abolition of black slaveryescape and quest3.Huck s struggle(his head)Convention:social aw

7、arenesslslavery is good whites are superior to blacks-the escaped/fugitive slaves should be reported and punished(his heart)Conscience:sense of good and evillJim is a good man,as good as the white people-his affection to JimlHuck is in moral conflict with the received values of the society in which

8、he lives,and while he is unable to consciously refute those values even in his thoughts,he makes a moral choice based on his own valuation of Jims friendship and human worth,a decision in direct opposition to the things he has been taught,which embodies the major theme of the novel,the search for fr

9、eedom.Mark Twains writing features 1.He is a master of humor and satire 2.All the characters are described in true to life details.3.The language is colloquial,ungrammatical,uneducated,vernacular(乡土气息),typical American speech.4.He makes colloquial speech an accepted literary medium.5.The first perso

10、n narration shows accuracy and authenticity(真实).Language stylelgeneral standard speech of uneducated Americans:different dialectslmost words are of Anglo-Saxon origin,short,concrete and direct.lsentence structures are simple or compound,with a series of“thens”and“ands”and semi-colons as connectivesluse of ungrammatical elements