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2. wide-spread contempt for law (looking down upon law) 3. Freud’s theory 3.?Features of the literature Writers: three groups (1) Participants (2) Expatriates [eksp?trieit]?n. 亡命国外者 (3) Bohemian (unconventional way of life) – on-lookers Two areas: (1) Failure of communication of Americans (2) Failure of the American society 1920 Sinclair Lewis, Main Street 辛克莱·刘易斯《大街》 Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence 　伊迪斯·华顿《天真/纯真年代》 F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise 　菲茨杰拉德《人间天堂/天上人间》 Ezra Pound, Hugh Selwyn Mauberly 埃兹拉·庞德《休·塞尔温·莫伯利》 Eugene ONeill, The Emperor Jones 尤金·奥尼尔《琼斯皇》 Death of William Dean Howells (b. 1837) 1921 Edith Wharton wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Innocence. Although some of the judges wished to award the prize to Sinclair Lewiss Main Street.? James Joyces Ulysses is published in Paris; 500 copies imported to America are seized by the U. S. Post Office as obscene material and burned. 1922 T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1921-1922) Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt? Eugene ONeill, The Hairy Ape 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time? Willa Cather, The Professors House Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy 1926 William Faulkner, Soldiers Pay Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, 《太阳照常升起》 1929 William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury, 《喧哗与骚动》 Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms, 《永别了武器》 The Jazz Age The Jazz Age: 1918-1929 Beginning: the end of World War I and the start of the Roaring Twenties Ending: the rise of the Great Depression the traditional values of this age: greatly declined the American stock market soared * * * * * Literature of the 20th Century The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded annually throughout the century, the first laureate (1901) being Sully Prudhomme. Agatha Christie The best-selling works of the 20th century are estimated to be Quotations from Chairman Mao (1966, 900 million copies), Harry Potter and the Philosopher‘s Stone (1997, 120 million copies), And Then