Language Features in Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaverous Country
II Introduction to Mark Twain and The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaverous Country
2.1 Introduction to Mark Twain Mark Twain,pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clamens,is one of the most outstanding humorists in American literature history,whose best works are characterized by broad,often irreverent humor or biting social satire．His works are also known for realism of place and language,memorable characters,and hatred of hypocrisy and oppression． Mark Twain neglected or bypassed the harshness of reality in most of his writings．He delighted the readers with humorous and gently satiric sketches about mining camps and life on and along the fiver(Roughing It(1872),The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County(1865)，life on the Mississippi(1 883))or with hilarious spoofs about greenhorns and intellectuals(The Gilded Age(1873)，The Innocents Abroad(1869)，Political Economy(1 870))，These works are funny because of their arrangement of the story and also the picturesque language and a deliberately guileless tone．Twain's late years were frustrated with financial problems and family illness，he Was no longer able to find solace in the past or at present,and finally he lapsed into extreme pessimism．Works like To a Person Sitting in Darkness(1901)，What is Man(1906)and The Mysterious Stranger(1916)show pity to the“damned human race'’as the victim of a malevolent human force．Twain received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1 907．He died in 1910 and left all uncompleted autobiography,which Was eventually edited by his secretary,AJbert Bigelow Paine,and published in 1924． The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County，the short novels fall in the favorite of the author of this thesis,because they are concise in language and short in length,and especially in the interpretation of humor,a text with larger contextual background is more complex to analyze.Therefore,the language used in short novels is the focus of this thesis.(硕士论文 胡治艳)
2.1 Introduction to The
2.1 Introduction to Mark Twain Mark Twain,pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clamens,is one of the most outstanding humorists in American literature history,whose best works are characterized by broad,often irreverent humor or biting social satire．His works are also known for realism of place and language,memorable characters,and hatred of hypocrisy and oppression． Mark Twain neglected or bypassed the harshness of reality in most of his writings．He delighted the readers with humorous and gently satiric sketches about mining camps and life on and along the fiver(Roughing It(1872),The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County(1865)，life on the Mississippi(1 883))or with hilarious spoofs about greenhorns and intellectuals(The Gilded Age(1873)，The Innocents Abroad(1869)，Political Economy(1 870))，These works are funny because of their arrangement of the story and also the picturesque language and a deliberately guileless tone．Twain's late years were frustrated with financial problems and family illness，he Was no longer able to find solace in the past or at present,and finally he lapsed into extreme pessimism．Works like To a Person Sitting in Darkness(1901)，What is Man(1906)and The Mysterious Stranger(1916)show pity to the“damned human race'’as the victim of a malevolent human force．Twain received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1 907．He died in 1910 and left all uncompleted autobiography,which Was eventually edited by his secretary,AJbert Bigelow Paine,and published in 1924． The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County，the short novels fall in the favorite of the author of this thesis,because they are concise in language and short in length,and especially in the interpretation of humor,a text with larger contextual background is more complex to analyze.Therefore,the language used in short novels is the focus of this thesis.(硕士论文 胡治艳)
2.1 Introduction to The