杨勇：Unit8：马克吐温.doc

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 L ecture; 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 else 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 / ?? ?.m? t/ aim of the localists is to create the illusion of indigenous |? n'd ?d ??n?s] 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. 固守独特的格调; 癖性;