论述Mark_Twain美国文学.pptVIP

---Mirror of America 　　　　 必威体育精装版.课件 * 马克吐温故居 必威体育精装版.课件 * 马克吐温的家庭 必威体育精装版.课件 * The Name of Mark Twain Mark Twains real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens(萨缪尔·朗霍恩·克莱门斯). Mark Twain,is his pen name ,which meanswatermark two(水深两浔),was a call used by sailors on the Mississippi to warn shipmates that they were coming into shallow water. 必威体育精装版.课件 * Life experience Mark Twain was born at Florida, Missouri, a little town in Mississippi.At the death of his father in 1847, Twain ,11 years old ,had left school to be an apprentice to a printer. Then a brief but glorious career as a Mississippi River steamboat pilot ended when the river was blockaded at the beginning of the Civil War. After a short term of soldiering as a Confederate volunteer, Twain went to Nevada, hoping to strike it rich in the silver fields. 必威体育精装版.课件 * When his mining schemes failed, he joined the staff of the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, exchanged his real name, Samuel L. Clemens, for a pseudonym, “Mark Twain,” and began his career as a frontier humorist. Because of “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,”《卡拉韦拉斯县驰名的跳蛙》(1865), he is known as the master of humorist all over the country. 必威体育精装版.课件 * In 1866, after six years as a miner, newspaper reporter, and lecturer, Twain went east responding to,he said,“a call to literature of a low order—i.e. humorous.” He took with him a reputation as “the wild humorist of the Pacific Slope” and a lively imagination that had led him to turn many of his newspaper “reports” into burlesques(滑稽戏)and comic sketches(喜剧小品).The success as a writer gave Twain enough financial security to marry Olivia Langdon(欧丽维亚·兰登) in 1870. 必威体育精装版.课件 * While in New York, Twain was commissioned by a San Francisco paper to sail on a five-month voyage with a group of American tourists and report their confrontations with the cultural and religious shrines（圣地） of Europe and the Holy Land. Upon his return to America, Twain gathered his irreverent newspaper articles, revised and published them as In