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ckleBerry  Finn.  The Adventures of HuckleBerry Finn is the most prominent literature work of Mark Twain, which  exposes  the  decayed  way  of  bourgeoisie’s  life  through  the  little  boy  Huck; while The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, essay of similar nature, is also about the topic of  the  situation  of  America  at  that  time.  Therefore,  these  two  representative companion  novels  of  Mark  Twain  are  selected.  The  analysis  of  the  verbal  humor  in the novels is in the Chapter Four. Data analysis is according to my observation of the two novels. 
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Chapter 1    Literature Review

1.1 Previous Studies on Mark Twain’s Verbal Humor 
Mark  Twain,  pen  name  of  Samuel  Langhorne  Clemens,  is  one  of  the  most eminent humorists in the world. Famous for his humor and satire in his literary works, Mark Twain is the representative personage of American critical realism. His life on Mississippi river makes a remarkable influence on his writing career. “Sam Clemens himself  originated  from  the  antebellum  border  slave  state  of  Missouri,  and  much  of Twain’s  mature  work  focuses  on  characters  straddling  and  transgressing borders---mysterious  strangers,  outcasts,  twins,  mix-race  individual,  impostors, travelers and so on” (Joseph Goeke 2012: 9). In western countries, the researches emphasized on Mark Twain’s verbal humor are  mainly  about  the  innate  character  of  Mark  Twain’s  verbal  humor  and  the derivation  of  Mark  Twain’s  verbal  humor.  Leland  Krauth  (1982)  considers  Mark Twain  as  a  Victorian  and  holds  the  view  that  Mark  Twain  reshapes  the  tradition  of southwestern  humor.  Focusing  on  the  novel  The  Adventures  of  Huck  Berry  Finn, Krauth  regards  Huck  as  a  gentleman,  and  the  tenderness  of  Huck  almost  accorded with Mark Twain’s version of eighteenth-century Man of Feeling, so he suggests that “the pathos of Huck’s experience as gentle Man of Feeling that creates the humor in book.  And  this  too,  is  something  new  in  the  tradition  of  Southwestern  humor”.  Joseph Goeke (2012) revolves around the topic of the border life accounts for Mark Twain’s  verbal  humor.  Both  physical  and  geographical  borderland  as  well  as  social borderland attribute to Mark Twain’s verbal humor. Goeke holds that the cultural and political  background  have  impact  on  Mark  Twain’s  writing  and  claims  that  both superiority over others and incongruity are the causes of Mark Twain’s humor. David Sloane  (2010)  makes  a  comparison  bet本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。