CULTURE 5A英语国家与文化.ppt

主要作品: In a Station of the Metro The Cantos His contribution to poetry began with promotion of Imagism, a movement that called for a return to more Classical values, stressing clarity, precision and economy of language, and had an interest in non-traditional verse forms. Excerpt from the Cantos George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950 Nobel Prize winner 1925 “因为作品具有理想主义和人道主义” 获奖理由: The Irish legend, a dramatist and a literary critic in addition to being a socialist spokesman. His valuable contributions to literature won him the Nobel Prize for literature in 1925. While Shaw accepted the honor, he refused the money. George Bernard Shaw was a free spirit and a freethinker who advocated women’s rights and equality on income. 卖花女 1913 Statue of GB Shaw in Niagara-on-the-Lake where there is an annual Shaw theatre festival Shaws birthplace, Dublin 鲁迅与萧伯纳、蔡元培 6.2.2 Drama 6.2.1 Fiction George Orwell 1903-1950 Ian Fleming 1908-1964 John Fowles 1926-2005 6.1 Modern Period -pre1945 6.2 Postmodern Period-post1945 1. Modernism tends to present fragmented view of human subjectivity but as tragic, as a loss. While Postmodernism doesn’t lament the fragmentation but rather celebrates it. What’s the distinction between the two? 2. Modernists look for buried meaning below confusing surfaces, while Postmodernists abandon that search. What is Stream of Consciousness? Stream of Consciousness makes it appearance in the late 19th century. It is a kind of literary technique which depicts the characters’ mental and emotional reactions in an unpunctuated or disjointed form. 6.1.2 Poetry 6.1.3 Drama 6.1.1 Fiction Joseph Conrad Virginia Woolf James Joyce D. H. Lawrence Joseph Conrad 1857-1924 precursor of modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors, What did he w