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【标题】On Humor and Satire in Mark Twain’s Novels 【作者】陶彦竹 【关键词】幽默与讽刺；人物刻画；情节设置；语言特色 【指导老师】廖东红 谭佳 【专业】英语 【正文】I. IntroductionMark Twain, the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, is the forerunner and reputed realist American literary giant. Because of his remarkable contribution to the nation, literary critics spoke highly of his achievements.His early works such as The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country and Running for Governor aim to expose cheating and the essence of American election with humorous style. His later works such as The Million Pound Note focus on the opportunism and money worship, of course, his style is inclined to satire instead. All of his works are considered as the masterpiece of American literature. In the later of 19th century, with the advent of American Imperialism, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg is Mark Twain’s representative opus.II. Generalization of Mark Twain’s NovelsMark Twain was deeply affected by the civilian oral literature and humorous literature of U.S. and absorbed in many jokes and folktales, therefore, he created a large mount of humorous works. Although many writers and poets of U.S. have tried to add some national themes into their works, they were affected even restricted by British traditional literature, so that their works were lack of American character.?Whitman quoted the comments in TIMES that the famous American poets were excessive faithfully inherited the British style, then some less educated British intellectuals simply treating them as native English. However, Mark Twain showed the American unique and indigenous style by his works. He helped American literature become a part of world literature, no longer a appendage of British literature. All things about Europe were put aside, the last point of the residual feudal literature has vanished, and he belonged to the local and the west, but also belongs to the United States. For this reason, Mark Twain was known as?“a real father” of Ameri