英美文学选读Modern and Contemporary.pptVIP

Modern and Contemporary 1914-1945/1975 1945/1975- Modern Period 1914-1945/1975 A Modern Mind What had she to do with parents and antecedents? She knew herself new and unbegotten, she had no father, no mother, no anterior connections, she was herself, pure and silvery. (D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love, 1920) The Modern Movement A road church that embraced a variety of forms, techniques, styles, and attitudes, all of which were in some way innovative and in some way representative of new twentieth-century modes of awareness. Modernism –A Definition A deliberate and radical break with some of the traditional bases both of Western culture and of Western art. To question the certainties for the modes of social organization, religion, morality, and conception of the human self. Intellectual Precursors Friedrich Nietzsche Sigmund Freud James G. Frazer Golden Bough: central Christian tenets and pagan often barbaric myths and rituals Modernism—A Minority Current Although it now dominates our map of the literary scene in these decades, modernism was in its own time a minority current Joyce, Wolf and Eliot’s avant-garde periodicals reached an audience of only few hundred people Realism still Popular H.G. Wells Arnold Bennett W. Somerset Maugham John Galsworthy E.M. Foster Bernard Shaw Sold in their tens of thousands! A Few Cases of Modernism Sons and Lovers Psychoanalysis Oedipus Complex “Blood is the substance of the soul.” Intuition and blood rather than rationality Inner reality: a struggle of a young man to overcome his timidity and his “resentment” against his mother. A Phallic Cult From Simon De Beauvoir’s The Second Sex Couple perfectly polarized masculinity—femininity Woman is “no more than a mere pretext”, “an object”, “an occasion for him to contact with the infinite”. Lawrence believes in the supremacy of the male and takes woman as the Other to realize his Self. Mrs. Dalloway Stream of Consciousness Long passages of introspection (内省). Capture