美国文学modernism.ppt

Modernism (1918-1945) Contents Definition Reasons Characteristics Examples Representatives Definitions In the arts, a radical break with the past and the concurrent search for new forms of expression. Modernism fostered a period of experimentation in the arts from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, particularly in the years following World War I. Definitions The Modernist impulse is fueled in various literatures by industrialization and urbanization, by the search for an authentic response to a much-changed world. Among English-language writers, the best-known Modernists are T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf. Definitions The avant-garde movements that followed – including Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, Constructivism, De Stijl, and Abstract Expressionism – are generally defined as Modernist. Reasons production of the age, the development of society Industrialization, development of science and technology Two world wars Literary needs Reasons developed forward rapidly on science and technology the convenience the smell of metal and stinking of money with the remoter relationship between people Reasons Two world wars lived a restless life without belongingness Reasons Literary needs can not meet the spiritual needs of people any more a new literary form to focus on the inner world of people various experimental trends appeared integral whole of all the trends having the modern features at that period Characteristics attached importance to the characters’ inner world self-consciousness and the spiritual activities various unique writing techniques and literary forms as well as the expression ways no more fixed form or structure in Modernism. (thoughts or consciousness of characters mainly) Shifting points of view Glimpse Symbolism Time sequence Examples When the servant Kate was called to the table, there is a descriptive sentence: “And proud young Kate, the enchanted princess, came