modernisn and postmodernism 现代主义和后现代主义.docVIP

An Introduction ToModernism Postmodernism? ? Every literary period is modern in its own eyes. The ancient Greeks of 5th century BC Athens thought they were modern. The Romantics in their day thought they were modern. The writers of Realism saw themselves as modern in rejecting the Romantics. We just don’t have a good term right now for the literary era in which we live. By default, we call most literary works written after World War I modern. It is difficult to look at our own times and see what literary era we are living in and come up with a good name for it. Modern is the best that we can