文学第四周.ppt

Mark Twain’s witty remarks 美国有一位百万富翁，他的左眼坏了，花好多钱请人给装了一只假的，这只假眼装得真好，乍一看，谁也不会认为是假的。于是，这百翁富翁十分得意，常常在人们面前夸耀自己。有一次，他碰到马克·吐温，就问道：“你猜得出来吗？我哪一只眼睛是假的？”马克·吐温指着他的左眼说：“这只是假的？” 马克·吐温说：“因为你这只眼睛里还有一点点慈悲。”  2. 法国名人波盖取笑美国人历史太短，说：“美国人没事的时候，往往喜欢怀念祖宗，可是一想到祖父一代，就不能不打住了。” ?马克·吐温回敬说：“法国人没事的时候，总是想弄清他们的父亲是谁，可是很难弄清楚。”  “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” Picture from Dave Thomson collection: “The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not mans.” Picture from Dave Thomson collection: Mark Twain and the Mississippi Mark Twain loved the great river so much that he always went in the direction of the nearby Mississippi. Many of his great works are set in the background of the Mississippi River, such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and Life on the Mississippi. (P49) Hemingway once wrote: All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn... its the best book weve had... There was nothing before. There has been nothing so good since. Mark Twain’s Masterpieces Three Stages of Mark Twain’s Thought and Works active and lively; full of acid尖刻的 and satirical sense; pessimistic and cynic. Writing Characteristics of Mark Twain Literature is an art of language. Mark Twain’s language is artistic and like a sharp weapon without doubt. Mark Twain is famous for his humor and satire. Mark Twain’s humor is based on the humor of the Western in America. He used a lot of colloquial idioms and colloquial syntax句法. He often described persons who was innocent, simple, naive, and ignorant as his heroes or heroines. He used the artistic style of hyperbole夸张 on the basis of the western traditional humor and made his writing full of allegories that lay behind the humor. A Mirror of America 1. “Mirror” here means a person who gives a true representation or description of the country. 2. Generally speaking, all literary giants in human history are also gre