自考英语本科《英美文学选读》-美国现代时期一天全掌握.docVIP

The modern period 现代时期 the second American Renaissance, the expatriate移居海外 movement, the Lost Generation, 迷茫的一代 a transformation from order to disorder Seize the day, enjoy the present, 及时行乐 spiritual wasteland, collective unconscious,psychoanalysis Imagist movement, Jazz Age 应用 名词解释：迷惘的一代，意象派诗歌，象征主义，表现主义，意识流 荒原意识在美国20世纪文学中的反映 《地铁站一瞥》《盟约》《河商的妻子》：主题、意象、语言 弗洛斯特的自然诗 《摘苹果后》《未选择的路》《雪夜停马在林边》：主题、 象征与比喻、语言 《毛猿》第八场：主题结构、表现主义和象征主义手 《了不起的盖茨比》第三章：主题结构、人物刻画、语言风格 age: second half of the 19th century to early decades of the 20th century background: (1)the U.S. has become the most powerful country (2)technological revolution (3)a decline in moral standard, a spiritual wasteland, feelings of fear, loss, disorientation and disillusionment influencing ideas: (1)the same as English Modern period: Karl Marx, Darwin, Freud (2)stream of consciousness: modernisms features: literature: convey a vision of social breakdown and moral decay writer: develop techniques that could represent a break with the past. modernistic works are discontinuity and fragmentation The differences between Modernism America and England (1)American writers emphasize the concrete sensory images or details as the direct conveyor of experience (2)modern fiction employ the first narration or confine the reader to the central consciousness or one character‘s point of view common ground: directness, compression, vividness, sparing of words The idea of “seize the day” or “enjoy the present ” was pervasive, as opposed to placing all hope in the future.“ 及时行乐”的思想十分横行，他们不把希望寄托在将来。 The most recognizable literary movement that gave rise to the twentieth century American literature, or we may say, the second American Renaissance, is the expatriate movement. 美国20世纪的文学运动，也可说是美国第二次文艺复兴，就是移居国外的运动。 These writers were later named by an American writer, Gertrude Stein, also an expatriate, “The Lost Generation”. (why)---Disillusioned and disgusted by the frivolous greedy, and heedless way of