表现主义Expressionism.pptVIP

Expressionism Contents Definition Birth and Development Reflection on World Literature Reflection on American Drama Features of Expressionist literature Significance Definition Expressionism It arose in German theater after World War Ⅰ. Delighting in bizarre stage and exaggerated makeup and costuming, expressionists sought to reflect intense states of emotion. Its mode is “the externalization of the inner”. (翟士钊， 《美国文学选读》，1994) Expressionism In literature, expressionism is often considered a revolt against realism and naturalism, seeking to achieve a psychological or spiritual reality rather than record external events in logical sequence. (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition; 9/9/2005 Birth and Development Expressionism flourished principally in Germany. The German Expressionist movement began in 1905 with artists such as Kirchner and Nolde, who favored the Fauvist style of bright colors but also added stronger linear effects and harsher outlines. This school of painting was more concerned with the evocative qualities of color and pattern, unrelated to content. (/wm/paint/tl/20th/expressionism.html) Birth and Development In expressionism the artist tries to present an emotional experience in its most compelling form. The artist is not concerned with reality as it appears but with its inner nature and with the emotions aroused by the subject. To achieve these ends, the subject is frequently exaggerated, distorted, or otherwise altered in order to stress the emotional experience in its most intense and concentrated form. Reaching its culmination during World War I, Expressionism was a powerful response to the chaos and suffering of modern life, Projecting existential anxieties into urban life. Reflection on World Literature In the novel, Expressionism is closely allied to the writing of Austrian writer Franz Kafka(1883-1924) . This timid Jew depicted the absurdity of modern life and its power structures in a series of parable-li