Mark-Twain(马克·吐温介绍).PPT

Mark Twain Writing Styles Two writing styles Colloquial Language（通俗语） Satire（讽刺） Examples: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Damned Human Face Mark Twain was the first important writer to consistently use the American speech rather than England’s English. His honor, whether it was aimed at pure entertainment or at social satire, was irresistible. His realism, and details influenced many later American novelists. That was why Ernest Hemingway once said “all modern American literatures came from one book written by Mark Twain called The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” And it became Twain’s masterpiece. Mark Twain’s three years’ life on Mississippi left such a fond memory with him that returned to the theme more than once in his writing career. 1.Use of Colloquial Language 1.1 Vernacular Language(方言） 1.2 Local Color 1.3 Pun（双关语） The book is written in a colloquial style, in the general standard speech of uneducated Americans. Moreover, the prose of Huckleberry Finn established the prose virtues of American colloquial speech. It has something to do with ease and freedom in the use of language. Most of all, it has to do with the structure of the sentence, which is simple, direct, and fluent, maintaining the rhythm of the word’s group of speech and the intonations of the speaking voice. Mark Twain’s colloquial style has influenced a large number of American writers. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn displays the major achievements of his art: the carefully controlled point of view, with its implicit ironies expressed through the voice of a semiliterate(半文盲的) boy: the masterful use of dialects(方言): the felicitous(恰当的) balancing of nostalgic humorist and realism, humor and pathos(同情), innocence and evil, all united for a journey down the Mississippi that serves as the mythic center of the novel. This novel demonstrates his ability to capture the enduring, archetypal(典型的), mythic images of America and to create the most memorable characters in all o