《8The20thcenturyAmericanlit》-精选·课件设计.pptVIP

American lit. in the 20th Century Content I. The Naturalistic Period (1900-1914) The Modern Period (1914-1939) The Contemporary Period (1939- ) I. The Naturalistic Period (1900-1914) Features Apply principles of scientific determinism（决定论） to fiction and drama. Viewing human beings as animals in the natural world responding to environmental forces and internal stresses and drives. American Naturalism: pessimistic realism 1. Naturalism came from France. 2. Reasons: civil war, social upheavals, Darwinism, hypothesized（假定） that over the millennia（太平盛世）, man had evolved from lower for