美国文学Modernism课件

1、American Modernism1914 1945The modernism period in America literature lasted from 1914 to 1945 with the first world war as a starting point and the second world war ending point. Surely, it also experienced the 1930s economic depression.Historical Background traumas of the first world war 第一次世界大战的创伤

2、 Industrialization and urbanization 工业化程度的加剧和城市化进程的加深 High-speed development of technology and science 科技的高速发展 The 1930s economic depression 30年代的经济大萧条 Collapse of social value system 社会价值体系的崩溃 Dropping moral standards 道德标准的江河日下 Sense of depression, fear and disillusionment“The Lost Generation” - Am

3、erican expatriates in Europe - Fitzgerald, Hemingway, e. e. cummings,Philosophical Backgroud :irrationalism 反理性主义 Kant, Comte, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bergson, FreudLost Generation (Beat G.)A name applied to the disillusioned intellectuals and artists of the years following World War I, who rebelle

4、d against former ideas and values but could replace them only by despair or a cynical hedonism. The remark of Gertrude Stein, “You are all a lost generation,” addressed to Hemingway, was used as a preface to the latters novel The Sun Also Rises, which brilliantly describes an expatriate group typica

5、l of the “Lost Generation.” Other expatriate American authors of the period to whom the term is generally applied include Ezra Pound, E.E. Cummings, F. S. Fitzgerald, and so on.) Features of the WorksFreuds psychoanalysis, William Jamess stream of consciousness theory and archetypal symbol (原型符号) had great impact on the writers of American modernism period. They pay special attention to the inner world of people. The Schools of American Modernism:1）Modern poetry: experiments in form (Imagism)2）Prose Writing: modern realism (the Lost Generation)3）Novels