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Mark Twain
Local Colorism
• Definition: “such quality of texture and background that it could not have been written in any other place or by anyone else than a native”
Texture: local culture, speech, customs
Background: physical setting and landscape qualities
Local colorists: Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Steinbeck and William Faulkner.Mark Twain: “The novelist lays before you the ways and speech and life of a few people grouped in a certain place– his own place– and that is one book.In time, he and his brothers will report to you the life and the people of the whole nation.”
Mark Twain Biography
• Mark Twain is the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.• He was brought up on the Miiippi River.• He was a printer’s apprentice, a journeyman printer, a silver miner, a steamboat pilot.•
Major worksThe Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County(1865)《卡拉维拉斯县驰名的跳蛙》 The Gilded Age(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 Miiippi(1883)《密西西比河上的生活》 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(1884)《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court(1889)《亚瑟王朝廷里的康涅狄格州美国佬》
Writing Features
• Local speech or language
• Humor
• Satire
