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Unit 8
Part 1
The Age of Realism and Naturalism: Mark Twain
Ⅰ Teaching Content
Local Colorism; Mark Twain
Ⅱ Time Allotment
4 periods
Ⅲ Teaching Objectives and Requirements
1 Help the students to know about Local Colorism.
2 Help the students to know about Mark Twain
Ⅳ Key Points and Difficult Points in Teaching
1 Local Colorism
2 Mark Twain
3 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Ⅴ Teaching Methods and Means
Lecture; Discussion; Multi-media
Ⅵ Teaching Process
1 Local Colorism
Introduction
● Local colorism first made its presence felt in late 1860s and early seventies.
● Hamlin Garland defines local colorism in his Crumbling Idols as having “such quality of texture and background that it could not have been written in any other place or by anyone e
lse than a native.” Here “texture”(质地) refers to the elements which characterize a local culture, elements such as speech, customs, and mores to peculiar to one particular place. “Background” covers physical setting and those distinctive qualities of landscape which condition human thought and behavior. As Garland indicates, the ultimate // aim of the localists is to create the illusion of indigenous | ɪn'dɪdʒɪnəs] little world with qualities that tell it apart from the world outside.
● Local color may be defined as the careful attention to details of the physical scene and to those mannerisms(n.