二十世纪英国文学.pptVIP

⒈Historical background WWⅠ Economic depression and worker’s movement Irish nationalist movement WWⅡ Realism in the 20th Century English Literature 二十世纪英国现实主义文学改变了维多利亚时代那种高雅温和的倾向，加强了对英国社会的保守性和虚伪性的批判，具有一种冷峻地直面人生的特点。 Modernism 1. A reaction against realism 2. Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and psycho-analysis as its theoretical base. 3. The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill relationships between man and nature, man and society, man and man, man and himself. 4. The modernist writers concentrate more on the private than on the public, more on the subjective than on the objective. They are mainly concerned with the inner being of an individual. In their writings, the past, the present, and the future are mingled together and exist at the same time in the consciousness of an individual. Some terms Symbolism 象征主义 Expressionism 表现主义 Surrealism 超现实主义 Futurism 未来主义 Dadaism 达达主义 Imagism 意向主义 Stream of consciousness 意识流 Existentialism 存在文学 Theatre of absurd 荒诞派戏剧 Black humor 黑色幽默 English Novel of Early 20th Century The Realists: The English realists at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th continued and developed the traditions of the brilliant school of critical realism. They sought for new ways and means of revealing the truth of life. In their works criticism of the bourgeois world reaches considerable depth and poignancy. The notable names among them include Butler, Meredith and Wells. Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 Kipling’s major works: Departmental Ditties and Other Verses 《分类的歌曲》 Seven Seas 《七海》 The Five Nations 《五国》 The Jungle Book 《森林之书》 Just So Stories 《如此故事》 Plain Tales from the Hills 《山中的故事》 Soldiers Three 《三个士兵》 Life’s Handicaps 《生命的阻力》 Many Inventions 《许多发明》 The Light That Failed 《消失的光芒》 Captain Courageous 《勇敢的船长》 Kim 《吉姆》 Arnold Bennett1867-1931 Bennett’s Major Works: Anna of the Five Towns 《无城的安娜》 Clayhanger 《克雷亨格》 Hilda Lessways 《希尔达·莱斯威斯》 These Twain 《这一对》 The Old Wives’ Tale 《