th week MarkTwain 英美文学赏析 培训讲解.pptVIP

Realism In American Literature;I． Historical Background The civil war: the North (industrialism) defeated the south (agrarianism) The development of industry: US headed toward capitalism People moved to the cities, population increased, property gathered by a few, John Rockfeller, Morgan, Andrew Carnegie The conflict between the two classes, European influences from Zola, Flaubert, Balzac, Dostoyesky, Tolstoy;Realism;(4) probe into the psychology of the characters, interested in the effect their work has on the readers and their life, feeling it to be their obligation to deal with absolute truthfulness (5) desire ‘simple, clear, direct prose’ style (6) write in an objective rather than an idealized way;Mark Twain;; pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens writer and humorist ;-- born in Florida --brought up in the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, on the Mississippi River --twelve when his father died and he had to leave school -- successively a printer’s apprentice, a tramp printer, silver miner, a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi, and a frontier journalist in Nevada and California;Something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apples sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think—yes, it was three; I attended their funerals. ;Surgeons and anatomists see no beautiful women in all their lives, but only a ghastly stack of bones with Latin names to them, and a network of nerves and muscles and tissues inflamed by disease. The noblest work of God? Man. Who found it out? Man. Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. ;Mark Twain’s major works:;;; Innocents Abroad (1869) 《傻子出国记》 Roughing It (1872) 《艰难岁月》 The Gilded Age (with Charles Dudley Warner, 1873) 《镀金时代》 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)《汤姆·索耶历险记》 ;The Prince and the Pauper (1882) 《王子与贫民》 Life on the Mississippi (1883) 《密西西比河