美国文学American Modernism.ppt

The Literature of Modernism (1918 – 1945) (The second renaissance of American literature. ) The Historical Background World War I American become the richest country The economic crisis Everyone is worried about their future “New deal ” has been raised World War II Stimulate American industrial production Features of Literature In modernist literature characters are often deformed the story is often absurd the theme is often desperate The development of literature Poetry Imagist Poetry Symbolism Poetry Main Writers and works Ezra Pound 埃兹拉·庞德 Cantos 《诗章》 Personae 《人格面具 》 Exultations 《欣喜》 Provence 《普罗旺斯》 The Spirit of the Romance《罗曼诗歌的精神》 T.S.Eliot 艾略特 The Waste Land 《荒原》 The Hollow man 《空心人》 Edwin Arlington Robinson 罗宾逊 The Town down the River 《河下游的城镇》 The man Against the Sky《天边人影》 Novel Sinclair Lewis辛克莱?刘易斯 Main Street 《大街》 F. Scott Fitzgerald 菲兹杰拉德 The Great Gatsby 《了不起的盖茨比》 Ernest Hemingway 海明威 The Sun Also Rises 《太阳照样升起》 William Faulkner威廉·福克纳 The Sound and the Fury 《喧哗与骚动》 John Steinbeck约翰?斯坦贝克 The Grapes of Wrath 《愤怒的葡萄》 Drama Eugene O’Neill尤金·奥尼尔 Long Day’s Journey Into Night 《进入黑夜的漫长旅程》 Beyond the Horizon《天外边》 Lost Generation The name of “Lost Generation” was given by Gertrude Stein. After World War I ,a group of young writers used their wartime experience as the basis for their works. They show a sense of loss after the war. They rebelled against former values and ideas, but replaced them only by despair or a cynical hedonism. The main writers of Lost Gener