07MarkTwain课件.ppt

# Unit SevenMark Twain Local Color Local-color fiction gained popularity in the United States after the Civil War. Local-color writers depicted nearly every region of the United States, lending realism to their stories by describing customs and manners and recreating dialects. Because these authors usually set their stories in their regions as they remembered them from their own youth, they often blended realism with nostalgic sentiment. Bret Harte (1837-1902) is a poet and fiction writer who specialized in local color and regional stories with western background. “The Luck of Roaring Camp” by Bret Harte Kate Chopin (1851-1904) is a local colourist and interpreter of New Orleans culture. She also foreshadowed in her short stories and novels later feminist themes. Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) was a regional novelist whose work depicted Maine settings and personalities. Mark Twain Life and Literary Achievements Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on Nov. 30, 1835, in the frontier village of Florida, Mo. He spent his boyhood in nearby Hannibal, on the bank of the Mississippi River, observing its busy life, fascinated by its romance. Twelve years old when his lawyer father died, he was apprenticed in 1848 to a local printer, contributing occasional squibs to local newspapers. Life and Literary Achievements He received a riverboat pilots license in 1859 and later moved on to Nevada and California. In 1863 he took his pseudonym, the rivermans term for water 2 fathoms (12 ft [3.7 m]) deep. In a California mining camp he heard the story that he first published in 1865 and made famous as the title story of his first book, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1867). Life and Literary Achievements He traveled widely, using his travels as subject matter for lectures and books, from the humorous narratives The Innocents Abroad (1869) and Roughing It (1872) to Life on the Mississippi (1883), his reflections on being a riverboat captain. He won a wo