英美文学精粹赏析-Selected Readings in English and American Literature ChptVII.ppt

Twain’s greatest fame and his importance in American literature rest largely on his two best known novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn II.Classical Works 1.Comic narrator Twain’s narrator can be himself, a mischievous boy or a na?ve tourist. His narrator is as colorful as his varieties of laughter. Yet whoever they are, they are all of comic nature. 2.Local colorism Twain has brought local colorism to world fame. It is he who gives literary life to the mother river and truthfully depicts the colors of the local life. III. Speci