美国文学课件8The Literature of the Realistic Period1教学教材.pptVIP

The Literature of the Realistic Period (1);Study Questions;Outline ;Ⅰ. Historical Overview;;Ⅲ. Mark Twain and his “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” ;His first book, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865) 《卡拉维拉斯县驰名的跳蛙》(his pseudonym Mark Twain ) Twain began touring the lecture circuits. His major works: The Gilded Age (1873) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) Life on the Mississippi (1883) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) ; “It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.” “Familiarity breeds contempt— and children.” “By trying, we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.” From Mark Twain ;From an optimist to a pessimist in his later years Twain ended by calling the human race “damned”. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 《败坏赫德莱堡的人》 (1890) The Mysterious Stranger (1916) ;“It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream — a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought — a vagrant thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities.” —— The Mysterious Stranger ;“All American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn… it’s the best book we’ve had.” — Earnest Hemingway;A controversial bookthrough the years;;Defense of Huck Finn;Key Facts of Huck Finn ;The adventure of Huck and Jim (an old black slave) continues down the Mississippi into Arkansas A journey of growth and maturity for Huck He changed his prejudice about Black people.;Two salient features of Huck Finn;Chapter 19 Summary;Quote from Chapter 19 (p 89);Discussion ;The issue of virtue;Mark Twain said of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as … “A sound heart and a deformed