(英文版)英国现代主义文学English-literature-Modernism

1、(英文版)英国现代主义文学English-literature_Modernism(英文版)英国现代主义文学English-literaturDefinitionexcludes from the external, objecive, material world against realism expresses the inner feelingfocuses on the viewpoint of a single confused individualirrational philosophy base as theoretical baseDefinitionexcludes fr

2、om the exBlackgroundTwo World Wars impaired the power of BritainThe two catastrophic(disasterous) World Wars severely weakened British power and brought great sufferings to its peple as well. The economic recession and mental depression impacted British severely. Many British were disappointed with

3、capitalism. Sun-never-set Empire finally collapsedBlackgroundTwo World Wars impaBlackgroundMarx and Engels issued Communist ManifestoEinstein put forward Theory of Relativity which renewed the concepts of time and space tremendouslyGreat progress in philosophy: analytical philosophy, Non-rationalism

4、 philosophy In 1848, Scientific Socialism emerged, guiding the class of workers. Meanwhile,it also gave an illustration of reforming capitalism.October Revolution in 1917(Russia) confirmed peoples belief.BlackgroundMarx and Engels isFictionFictionLeading writerVirginia Woolf (1882-1941)English novel

5、ist, critic, essayist Born and brought up in upper-class and literary family.Bisexual, feminist, married oncesuffered from depression after her parents died. SuicidedLeading writerVirginia Woolf (QuotesWhat is the meaning of life?. a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. Th

6、e great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations(=enlightment), matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.Virgina and her devoted husbandQuotesWhat is the meaning of Main WorksMrs. Dalloway To the LighthouseOrlando:

7、 A biography A Room of Ones Own Stream of consciousness(non-fiction work)Mrs. Dalloway To the LighthouseOrlando: A biography A Room of Ones Own literary technique which was pioneered by Dorthy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce. Stream of consciousness is characterized by a flow of thoughts

8、 and images, which may not always appear to have a coherent(=clear) structure or cohesion. The plot line may weave in and out of time and place, carrying the reader through the life span of a character or further along a timeline to incorporate(=combined) the lives (and thoughts) of characters from

9、other time periods. Important character traits are revealed through an exploration of what is going on in the mind. Main WorksMrs. Dalloway Leading writerJames Joyce (1882-1941)Irish novelist, famous for stream of the consciousnessone of the founders of Postmodernismled a destitute and homeless life

10、, suffer from eye illness Leading writerJames Joyce (188Main worksUlyssesFinnegans Wakerecords a salesman Leopold Blooms a single day in June 16, 1904 in Dublin.depicts a dream of Mr. Earwicker, a Dublin innkeeper, in a dream languageextensive use of inter monolog with complex network of symbolic pa

11、rallelscreative use of invented words, puns(双关语) and allusions（典故）.Main worksUlyssesrecords a salLeading writerD.H.Lawrence(1885-1930)British novelist, critic, poet,playwright(剧作家) and painter.called on natural lifeThe greatest imaginative novelist of our generation. by E.M.Fosterespecially controve

12、rsial and some works were banned as pornographic(色情的).Leading writerD.H.Lawrence(188Main WorksSons and lovers( Lawrences finest achievement)The rainbowlies in the psychological development of characters and in his energetic criticism of dehumanizing(丧失人性的) effect of the capitalist industrialization

13、on hunman nature.a story about three generations of the Brangwen family on Marsh farm.Main WorksSons and lovers( LawPoetryPoetryLeading poetWilliam Butler Yeats(1865-1939)Irish poet, dramatist and prose writera towering figure in 20th century literature in English, a master of traditional verse(=poe

14、try) forms winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923,famous for poetry, always interested in mystical theories and images, the supernatural, the esoteric and the occult. Leading poetWilliam Butler YeaMain worksThe Wild Swans at Coole(柯尔庄园)Michael Robartes and the DancerThe TowerMain worksThe

15、Wild Swans at CoLeading poetT.S Eliot(1888-1965)American-English poet, dramatist and literary criticwinner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948Nothing Can Be Done, But Something Can Be SaidLeading poetT.S Eliot(1888-196Main WorksThe Waste Land Four Quarters(四重奏)Burnt Norton（焚毁的诺顿）East CokerThe

16、Dry SalvagesLittle Gidding(吉丁村)Time and eternity, history and the present, the intervention(=interference) of the divine(=priest) in hunman life and the possibility of reconciliation(=settlement)ThemeMain WorksThe Waste Land BurDramaDramaMain DramatistGeorge Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)Irish dramatist, literary critic, socialist sopkenmanthe Fabian Societythe resentment of English societywinner of the Nobel Prize for Literature