英语国家文化与社会文化入门Chapter 10.pptVIP

Chapter 10The Modernist Movement and literary Achievement An account of background 1. economical factor Industrial revolution: steam-power industrialization urbanization An account of background 2. social factor The decline of living condition The birth of the Soviet Union An account of background 3. the influence social ideology Darwinism Marxism Definition of Modernism Two extremes and one middle line The common feature The Core of Modernist Thought “Age of anxiety” 1) Anxiety of meaninglessness 2) Loss of spiritual centre 3) A dread freedom 4) The death of idols Modernist Trend of Literature Modernist literature is sub-genre of Modernism, a predominantly European movement beginning in the early 20th century that was characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional aesthetic forms. Representing the radical shift in cultural sensibilities surrounding World War I, modernist literature struggled with the new realm of subject matter brought about by an increasingly industrialized and globalized world. 现代派文学的基本特征 思想内容：主观性、扭曲性、模糊性 艺术方法：重主观表现、重艺术想象、重形式创新 , 经常采用象征、荒诞、意识流等手法. Modernist Trend of Literature 1. Symbolism 象征主义 Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the style had its beginnings with the publication of The Flowers of Evil, （1857） by Charles Baudelaire. Modernist Trend of Literature Symbolists believed that art should represent absolute truths that could only be described indirectly. Thus, they wrote in a very metaphorical and suggestive manner, endowing particular images or objects with symbolic meaning. Modernist Trend of Literature Baudelaire 波德莱尔 Charles Pierre Baudelaire （1821 –1867) was a Fre