Творчество М.Твена и В.Ирвинга

Throughout the course of human events, men have adopted various literary styles and have advocated extensive literary beliefs and movements, striving to satisfy the desire to become better than before in effectively expressing ideas through writing. Since the Classicism movement, literature used to be logical, orderly, fact-based, and objective. As the flow of ideas lead people to follow, a new age of literature called as Romanticism had dawned and had stressed the freedom to be highly imaginative, emotional, and spontaneous, declaring the worth, goodness, and beauty of the ideal society. Roughly seventy years had elapsed and a new literary style had developed.

Introduction………………………………………………………………………..2
Chapter 1. The theme of maturity in Mark Twain`s and Washington Irwing`s literary legacy
1.1. Mark Twain`s and Washington Irwing`s literary legacy ……………………..4
1.2. The general characteristic of an “eternal child” ……………………………..15
1.3.The childhood as the special period in human life …………………………...16
1.4. “The theme of maturity “ in Washington Irwing`s novel “ Rip van Winkle” .21
1.5..“The theme of maturity “ in Mark Twain`s novel “ Tom Sowyer”
2. Conclusion ……………………………………………………………………..32
Bibliography………………………………………………………………………34