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　　Mark TwainBy Kim 3013211043 Spencer 3013211048

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　　Contents Brief introduction of Mark Twain later evaluation ''legendary'' life Writing Style Realism Humor Conclusion(Mirror of America)LOGO

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　　Brief introduction Samuel Langhorne Cleme (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910) better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a distinguished American author and humorist.LOGO

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　　later evalution The father of American literature

　　Lincon of American literature The greatest American humorist of his age

　　The modern humor tycoon A great writer, an excellent speaker

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　　legendary life Mark Twain was born shortly after a visit by

　　Halley's Comet, and as he predicted, he also went out with it. He died the day after the comet returned. (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910) In 1909, Twain said: I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. LOGO

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　　Main Centents Definition of critical realism Features of critical realism Backgrounds of criticism realism Political Economic cultural

　　Comparison with romanticism Representative personage and their works

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　　What is critical realism?Artistic thought Creation method mid nineteenth-century French and Russia literature part of the realist art movement

　　nineteenth and early twentieth century.

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　　What's the features of critical realism?

　　1. Objectively and realistically

　　2.Critical, exposed, and demanding for improvement.

　　3.Creating typical characters in a typical circumstances

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　　Political:

　　new stage of capitalism revolutionary movement contradiction among three social classes internal evils of capitalist system

　　Economic: industrial revolution urbanization rapid economic growth gap of wealth

　　Culture: development of natural science specific social psychology enlightenment movementLOGO

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　　Critical Realism: objectivity reality based on reality society life Criticism the socity directly

　　Romanticism subjectivity artificiality shape a ideal world natural objects hint the reality in their works

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　　Both expressed strong dissatisfaction with the reality but in a different wayLOGO

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　　Representative personage and their worksFrance: Balzac: Old Goriot, The Human Comedy Stendhal: The Red And The Black Maupassant: The Necklace, Ball-of-Fat

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　　England: Dickens:A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield

　　Russia:

　　Tolstoy: War and Peace, Anna Karenina Checkhov:Chameleon

　　America:

　　O.Henry:The Gift of the Magi Mark Twain:The Adventure of Tom Sawyer...

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　　Any thought is the product of the times.It's a time of contradictions

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　　Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. --Mark Twain

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　　Mark Twain's Humor Wit of humor(story saying) The display and realiz

　　ation of Mark Twain's humor

　　Colloquialism Figures of speech The use of I Change of writing style--from humor to satire (Social influences Personal encounters )

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　　Humorious Story Mark Twain was invited to dinner During the eveing, he said to a lady: Madam, you are so beautiful!'' Unexpectedly, the woman said:''Sir, but regrettably, I can't answer you the same thing.'' Sensitive mind, sharp-tongued Mark Twain smiled and replied:'' It doesn't matter, you can also tell lies, like me.

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　　Humorious Sayings If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. 如果你收养了一只饥饿可怜的狗,让它过的舒适,它就不会咬 你,这便是一个人与一只狗之间最主要的差别。

　　A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes. 真理还在穿鞋的时候，谎言就走遍了半个世界。

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　　Wit of Humor Mark Twain's humor is based on the western traditional humor in America, but not restricted to it . He draws the creative inspiration from the familiar surroundings and his personal experiences .

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　　Wit of Humor He tends to combine humor with satire so to criticize the social life and people’s morals and manners, to see something deeper than mere jokes. It is Make Twain who pushes humor to a new height and leads the most prosperous period of American humor.

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　　The display and realization of Mark Twain's humor Colloquialism Figures of speech The use of I

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　　Colloquialism Liberal use of funny colloquial language , full of American slang, and simple sentence structure , even ungrammatical, which infuse a column of fresh air into literal works. Mark Twain was a master at rendering colloquial speech and helped to create and popularize a distinctive American literature built on American themes and language.

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　　The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)

　　The Great American Novel. Represent Mark Twain’s rise to literary prominence and maturation as an artist.

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　　The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) Tom Sawyer and especially Huck Finn are well known as children's literature.

　　Speaking in colloquial language, two typically wild and uneducated American boys are vividly brought to life and impress every child's heart deeply.

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　　''In his hands, comic jargon and dialect became a

　　finished literary weapon, unemphatic, visual, and deceptively simple, sounding like speech and yet not quite the same''.--Marcus Culiffe

　　''In my opinion, Mark Twain was the first truly

　　American writer, and all of us since are his heirs, who descend from him.''--William Faulkner

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　　Figures of Speech Exaggeration Contrast Repetition (Irony, Anti-climax, Pun etc.)

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　　Figures of speech:

　　Exaggeration

　　''He's

　　plumb crazy, it's what I says in the fusty place, it's what I says in the middle, 'n' it's what I says last 'n' all the time - the nigger's crazy - crazy's Nebokoodneezer.'' --The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(1884)

　　This is a peasant woman who always says what I said, crazy and the same words, which lets the readers feel angry but amused. Mark Twain always uses his extremely exaggerated imagination to create these vivid expressions which give the readers a deep impression and leave the picture of a constantly repeated woman in our minds .LOGO

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　　Figures of speech:

　　Contrast

　　The biggest contrast is

　　the fate of the chief character--I.--The ￡1,000,000 Bank-Note

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　　Figures of speech:

　　Contrast

　　At first, “I was alone in the world , and had nothing to depend upon but my wits and a clean reputation”

　　A bet made by two rich men (a note of a million pound) ''I was not only rich, world-famous , but also married a beautiful wife .LOGO

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　　uses humor to strip away the vainglorious veils on society by means of contrast and often leaves a deep impression on readers.

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　　Figures of speech: Repetition They saw many honest faces go by that were not intelligent enough; many that were intelligent, but not honest enough; many that were both, but the possessor were not poor enough, or, if poor enough; were not strangers. --The ￡1.000.000 Bank-Note The repetition of “enough” emphasizes that “I ” is just the man that the two rich men have found, thus start the my comic experience, and so the readers are deeply absorbed in Mark Twain’s humorous story.

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　　The use of I Mark Twain always likes to use the first person to narrate stories in his novels. So we can find out many “I” in his major works.

　　“I” can not only represent the writer himself, but also let our readers understand Mark Twain's works and follow the writer's own thoughts of his novels much easier.

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　　Change from humor to satire In

　　a letter to friend and fellow writer William Dean Howells in 1887, Mark Twain himself also acknowledged that his views changed and developed over his life. Referring to one of his favorite works:

　　''When I finished Carlyle's French Revolution in 1871, I

　　was a Girondin; every time I have read it since, I have read it differently – being influenced and changed, little by little, by life and environment ... and now I lay the book down once more, and recognize that I am a Sansculotte! And not a pale, characterless Sansculotte, but a Marat.LOGO