Chapter 15美国文学 童明版.pptVIP

Chapter 15 Modernism in the American Grain Topics A Characteristics of American modernism B Historical, Philosophical, Formal dimensions of American modernism Definition of Modernism The term modernism is widely used to identify new and distinctive features in the subjects, forms, concepts, and styles of literature and the other arts in the early decades of the present century, but especially after World War I (1914-18). The specific features signified by modernism (or by the adjective modernist) vary with the user, but many critics agree that it involves a deliberate and radical break with