自考英美文学选读 English -Modern.pptxVIP

Selected Readings of English and American Literature;Part OneEnglish Literature;Chapter 5The Modern Period;Historical Background;Philosophical Ideas;Modernism;In?literature,?symbolism was an aesthetic movement that encouraged writers to express their ideas, feelings, and values by means of symbols or suggestions rather than by direct statements. ;Expressionism,?in?the?visual,?literary, and performing arts, a movement or tendency that strives to express subjective feelings and emotions rather than to depict reality or nature objectively. ;Surrealism,?artistic?and?literary movement that explored and celebrated the realm of dreams and the unconscious mind through the creation of visual art, poetry, and motion pictures.;Dadaism,?early?20th-century?art movement, whose members sought to ridicule the culture of their time through deliberately absurd performances, poetry, and visual art.;Imagism was a movement in early twentieth century Anglo–American poetry that favored precision of imagery, and clear, sharp language, as opposed to decorous language and unnecessary meter and rhyme. ;Stream of Consciousness, literary technique, employed to evince subjective as well as objective reality. It reveals the characters feelings, thoughts, and actions, often following an associative rather than a logical sequence, without commentary by the author.;Existentialism,?philosophical?movement or tendency, emphasizing individual existence, freedom, and choice, that influenced many diverse writers in the 19th and 20th centuries.;Black humor, a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.;Theatre of absurd works usually employ illogical situations, unconventional dialogue, and minimal plots to express the apparent absurdity of human existence. ;Modernism;The 20th Century Poetry ;The 20th Century Novels;The 20th Century Dramas;George Bernard Shaw;Life;Viewpoints;Works;Literary Featur