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Introduction
卡卡西的真面目The thesis of this paper is mainly discuss Mark Twain's humorous irony technique in some short stories. I have chon tow pieces of his work: Run for a Governor 学生会竞选部长演讲稿and the Dog’s Tale点心的英语. Mark Twain is the most outstanding American realism writer in19th century. And he creat a great number of novels all his life. Mark Twain’s novle faithfully reproduced American social life in his tiem. As the reprentative of American cirtical realism writer, Mark Twain ud his pen and work to expo and criticize the real and dark side of American life. The criticism of American reality content very extensive. He is a ironic writer, in some way, a true philosopher. His black humor aimed to combined humor and irony skillfully, which make readers find out the real meaning hiden in his work and feel the sarcastic irony behind his humor. Mark Twain’s writing style developed with the development of society and his deeping undestand of that society from the earlier humor to the later sarcastic. Characters he created such as the spiritual emptiness, idle ordinary civilians, politicians who steal positi
on, as well as for money, regardless of the corruption of the personality "first-class citizens" the poor performance, we understand the current American society of ugly phenomenon still is of practical significance. The first chapter is the introduction of the background and dark side of America in that time. In this chapater, I also gave a brief introduction of Mark Twain. The cond chapter is the introduction of Mark Twain humor technique, etc. In the 3rd chapater, I bascially wrote the applications and expressions of humorous irony in his novel, Run for a Governor. In the chapter five, I brifelly intoduced the humorous irony in Mark Twain’s short work, the Dog’s tale.
As we all know, Mark Twain has a great infuence all over the world, as well as in China. In the history, Mark Twain has always repeceted as “the father of American literature” and the “Abaraham Lincon of litrature”. Mark Twain’s language, the various skill in his writing,satire, irony, wild exaggration, mocking maxiams and funny quips have all contributed to his title given by his contemporiries as the “greatest American humoritic in his age. Mark Twain’s fame in literature comes first and the foremost becau he is very funny., in other words, he has been remembered by his readers for his humor, and the u
sage of humor and irony is the best illustratedin his book.(Mesnt, 2008 23)” His works make ue laugh, but at the same time make us think about the real meaning. His writing carrer can be bascially divided into three period: at the beginning, is the humor comic work., and the middle—humorous irony work and late—pessmistic. “I don’t humor for humor” as Mark Twain said himlf. He combined his humor to the irony of the dark side of the society. Mark Twain worked hard all his life and created lots of master pieces. From the spiritual emptiness, doing nothing at all to the petty townsfolk, politicians, and then to money rules and spirit of moral fall all the ruler's relentless became his laugh at, sarcastic and the attack of the object.中国插画 His works, humor implicit in deep meaning in American literature, make a tragic laughter, exaggeration and comic technique the clever apply, enhance the novel's humor and irony effect. As an outstanding humor and irony master, Mark Twain in his unique humorous style, with the combination of covers irony art creation, left us know American society and system of the precious heritage, and to recognize the ugly phenomenon of American society has practical significance.
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女性胸针The purpos for collecting tho bibliographies are as follow:
First, only after 金光华广场you have been read lots of materials, can you completely understand this topic. Second, the bibliographies help us know the rearch home and aboard. Third, Write thesis must reference numerous thes; they can contribute to find new breakthrough points and write an excellent thesis.
I will divide all the literatures and materials into tow categories:
Firstly, rearches scholars have made about Mark Twain’s works and his humorous irony. Most of the rearches are about Mark Twain’s famous novels, such as the Adventure of Huckleberry Finn and the Adventure of Tom Sawyer. etc. Secondly, rearches about Mark Twain’s work and his humorous irony made in China.
Conclusion
The subject of humor is a large one, and therefore talking about humor is an invariably rious business for anyone. Mark Twain’s idea of humor and his writing career is inparable. Although humor is the idea of being funny, talking about humor is never a fu
上海古玩城nny thing, but an invariably rious business, even for Mark Twain himlf. (Mesnt,2008:41) Even though Twain’s humor is best illustrated in his books, yet it
is necessary to examine some of his early stories and sketches, in order to have a clear view at the importance of his humorous techniques in his writing career, and his humor material. That is what makes people laugh at. Mark Twain enjoy the same, or rather to say, increasing popularity, although himlf as well as his works are almost 200 years old. In the study and rearches of Mark Twain’s u of language in his books, it is found that Mark Twain’s popularity first and foremost is due to his humor and other comic techniques, among which the u of humorous irony is the most common techniques that Mark Twain has applied in his writings. It is Mark Twain who has developed the u of humorous irony to the greatest extends; on the other hand, it is the humorous irony that has made Mark Twain and his writings, especially his books more popular and alive from the time they were published and until now. Mark Twain knows how to tell a humorous story without offending the readers or the audience. This paper will emphasize the comic techniques that Mark Twain had ud in tow of his works，Run for a Governor and the D
og’ s Tale,. Through the study of Mark Twain’s language, especially comic techniques that he had ud, we can obvious understand Mark Twain Myth—why his works are never out of date, although almost two centuries have pasd; in this way, this paper aims to provide some more knowledge about Mark Twain’s humor irony and the social life in America. He is a famous American novelist and satirist, changed his writing style from humor to bitter satire with the development of the society and his understanding of it. The characters in his novels vary from common people to politicians and principal citizens. In order to meet their lfish ends, they invent stories and sling mud at others. The clumsy performances help us e clearly the ugly. Twain was born in an eventful era in history, when the life of Americans changed a lot with the advent of the Civil War. Fierce conflicts exist between the South and the North, the black and the white, the poor and the rich, and the old and new way of life, etc. As a poor young man who wanted to make his American dream come true, Mark Twain tried a lot of jobs and finally obtained fame and fortune through his pen. He was a dual personality who sacrificed his individuality to achieve popularity, wearing the mask of "Mark Twain", a witty humorous man of letters. It
is always controversial how much the art fed into the life and how much the life fed the art. In the ca of Mark Twain, the life shaped his genius, which was approved of by De Voto. As a writer experiencing ri and fall in his life, Twain was interested in people's "lf' and identity. In Twain's novels, chronologically, the heroes experienced three stages in pursuing their identities, which are merging into society, fleeing from society and getting lost in society. Merging into society indicates progress and hope, with nobody's becoming somebody; fleeing from society marks the decline in the heroes' arching for an identity, with their doubting the world they are living in and trying to escape to find a better one; getting lost is the fall in one's lf pursuing, and the heroes cannot find a suitable identity in society for they cannot fit into it. The three stages are the reprentation of Twain's own life, embodying a shift from joy to despair, from dream to nightmare. The tool Mark Twain ud to explore one's identity and "lf ' is the mode of "twins", which displays Twain’s interest in "double" and "twins". As to the creation of fictions, besides exploring the theme, this kind of mode can help develop the plot and depict the characters. The mode of the "double", the twins, runs through his work and bec
omes one of the most remarkable characteristics of his novels. Through the depiction of such "twins" as Tom and Huck, Tom and Edward, Huck and Jim, Hank and King Arthur, Tom and Chambers, etc, Twain prents of lf pursuing and identity arching." The truth about Mark Twain," wrote H: L. Mencken in the Smart Set, "is that he was a colossus, that he stood head and shoulders above his country and his time, that even the combined of puritanism without and philistinism within could not trying him down to the national level." Thins that are most native are the things that are most international. As the father of American 1#erature, he contributed a lot to the world literature. As a "colossus", he has never ending attraction to critics all over the world, and is loved by people who speak different languages.
Mark Twain was a great writer has a great influence to the world as the same impact to China. This essay is to analysis the works of Mark Twain and technique, this will help us understand American culture, the real life of American life, reflect the nature of capitalism, but also to have great practical significance.
