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Mid-century and Beyond (1945-the present) Lost Generation: Name applied to the disillusioned intellectuals and aesthetes of the years following World War I, who rebelled against former ideals and values but could replace them only by despair or a cynical hedonism 快乐论, 快乐主义 The remark of Gertrude Stein, “You are all a lost generation” addressed to Hemingway, was used as a preface to the latter’s novel The Sun Also Rises, which brilliantly describes an expatriate移居国外的 group typical of the “lost generation.” Other expatriate American authors of the period to whom the term is generally applied include Malcolm Cowley, E.E.Cummings, F.ScottFitzgerald, Archibald Macleish, and Ezra Pound. CF.Beat Generation: ※ Outline of Mid-century and Beyond postwar fiction: the postmodern impulse postwar poetry and drama mainstream multiculturalism the globalization of American literature The Second World War (1939-1945) engendered造成 no immediate burst of literary energy comparable to the one that followed the WWI. The literature of modernism began before 1914, reached its pinnacle顶点 during the 1920s, and continued to inspire a generation of writers of great power, but after 1945 its assumptions and accomplishments met increasing resistance. By the decade of the 1960s, the ethos supporting the modernist agenda began to erode in conditions suggestive of a new and postmodern sensibility. The Second World War unleashed释放 a crude barbarism野蛮, 未开化 rejected by most humans ages before; aggressors in Europe and Asia abandoned national codes of honor that helped to curb some of the horrors of earlier wars, and, aided by new tools of mass destruction, escalated inhumanity to unprecedented levels. In the ensuing跟着发生 madness, both Germany and Japan seemed willing to risk the survival of their national cultures in campaigns shamefully intent on complete annihilation歼灭, 灭绝 of enemies within and without their borders. When the United States was swept by the tide of events into the mass destruction o