[英语学习]Bernard Shaw.ppt

Two stages Between the two World Wars After World War II Three main trends Modernism The Angry Young Men The Theatre of the Absurd Modernism Works of a group of poets, novelists, painters and musicians between 1910 and the early years after the World War II. imagism expressionism dadaism stream of consciousness existentialism The characteristics of modernist writings Complexity and obscurity The use of symbols Allusion Irony 1.?????? Symbolism: ? In historical criticism, it denotes an early modernist literary movement initiated in France during the nineteenth century that reacted against the prevailing standards of realism. Writers in this movement aimed to evoke, indirectly and symbolically, an order of being beyond the material world of the five senses. James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man –a semi-autobiographical novel which tells the story of a young man, Stephen Dedalus, from his birth to young adulthood, telling how he rejected his education, his family , and his religion. Ulysses written in stream of consciousness 1the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character’s thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images as the character experiences them. Virginia Woolf David Herbert Lawrence Sons and Lovers Realism: ? A nineteenth-century European literary movement that sought to portray familiar characters, situations, and settings in a realistic manner. This was done primarily by using an objective narrative point of view and through the buildup of accurate detail.The standard for success of any realistic work depends on how faithfully it transfers common experience into fictional forms. The realistic method may be altered or extended, as in stream of consciousness writing, to record highly subjective experience. ? The Angry Young Men A term is taken from John Osborne’s play Look Back in Anger The Theatre of the Absur