美国现代主义文学.pptx

The Age Of Modernism From team 10 Time The modernism period in America literature lasted from 1914 to 1945 with the first world war as a starting point and the second world war ending point.Surely, it also experienced the 1930s economic depression. 美国现代主义时期以一战为起点，经历了大萧条一直延续到二战。 Background Economy The World War I Cultural Background Economy After the first world war, there was a booming industry and material prosperity. However,the outbrust of the finacial crisis was a great disaster.The whole capitalist countrues was struck by catastrophy. 第一次世界大战后，美国的工业快速发展，经济繁荣。但是1929年爆发的经济危机却给予美国以及整个资本主义世界的经济以重创。 The World War I As a result of the First World War,Social breakdown and individual powerlessness and hopelessness became part of the American experience.There was a decline in moral standard and this period was best described as a spiritual wasteland. There was the loss of faith. People lived a purposeless and chaotic life. 一战后，社会崩溃，人们感到绝望和无力，道德底线下降。这一时期是美国精神的荒原，人们失去了信仰，过着无意义的混沌的生活。 Cultural Background A list of philosophical theories were widely spread in American. Marxism 马克思理论 Freud’s psychoanalysis弗洛伊德的心理分析 William James’s stream of consciousness theory 威廉·詹姆斯的意识流学说 Archetypal symbol荣格的原型象征理论 Cultural Influence Those theories had great pact on the writers of American modernism period. They pay special attention to the inner world of people.During this period the most compelling literature movement is the writer’s self exile,also known as “the second American Renaissance”. 这些理论对美国现代主义作家的文学创作产生了巨大影响。他们特别注重对人们的内心世界的挖掘。这一时期最引人注目的文学运动就是作家的自我流放，也称“第二次美国文艺复兴”。 Characteristics 1. Contradictory 矛盾性 2. Arrangement 排列性 3. Optional 随意性 4. No continuity 不连贯性 5. Extreme stretch of metaphor 比喻的极度引伸 6. The combination of fiction and fact 虚构与事实的结合 7. Absurd 荒诞的 Poetry Ezra Pound 埃兹拉·庞德 Robert Frost 罗伯特·弗罗斯特 Wallace Stevens 华莱士·史蒂文斯 Ezra Pound 埃兹拉·庞德 (1885～1972) The father of