英美文学5现代义.pptVIP

The Modern Period The writer concentrated on the private than on the public, more on the subjective than on the objective. They are mainly concerned with the inner being of an individual. The three trilogies（三部曲） of Galsworthy’s Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century. “the Angry Young Men” with lower-middle-class or working class background. Kingsley Amis, John Wain, John Braine and Alan Sillitoe were the major novelists in this group. Osborne, the first “Angry Young Man” James Joyce is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist; Ulysses S