20世纪美国文学发展的时代背景.docVIP

In the 20th century，with the great development of technologies and economic，especially the WWI and WWII， western countries’ old social problems and contradictions were aggravated continuously. New problems also appeared. The two World Wars made the spirit system of western countries’ hardly collapsed. The twentieth century is a flourishing period for the development of American literature, whose main characteristics is irrationalism presented in modernism and post-modernism accompanied with naturalism and post-realism. The flourishing of American literature owns a great deal to the social back