英美文学选读Modern and Contemporary.pptVIP

Modern and Contemporary 1914-1945/1975 1945/1975- Modern Period 1914-1945/1975 A Modern Mind What had she to do with parents and antecedents? She knew herself new and unbegotten, she had no father, no mother, no anterior connections, she was herself, pure and silvery. (D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love, 1920) The Modern Movement A road church that embraced a variety of forms, techniques, styles, and attitudes, all of which were in some way innovative and in some way representative of new twentieth-century modes of awareness. Modernism –A Definition A deliberate and radical break with som