安徽三联学院外语学院美国文学课件Chapter 15 Imagism and Ezra Pound.ppt

Imagism and Ezra Pound Content Ⅰ. Modernism Ⅱ. Modern Poetry: Imagism Ⅲ. Ezra Pound Preview Questions 1. What are the major characteristics of the literature of Modernism? 2. What are the main artistic expressions in Modernism? And who are the representatives? 3. What is Imagism? Who is the outstanding poet of Imagism? 15th C 1900 1945 2000 Native You were / are here Modernism Postmodernism Puritanism Enlightenment Romanticism Realism Naturalism Your Place in History (Ⅰ) Background of Producing Modernism 1. The Origin of Species (1859) radically altered the nineteenth century romantic view. 2. Herbert Spencer and Social Darwinism reconciled individualism with capitalism. 3. The work of Marx, Freud, and other great intellectual explorers had mounted an assault against orthodox religious faith. 4. World War I and the acceleration of the transformation of American society in particular deepened doubt, reauthorized disillusionment. (Ⅰ) Background of Producing Modernism Early 1900s: World War I Worldwide poverty exploitation Intellectual upheaval: Freud: psychoanalysis Marx: class struggle Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Neitzsche Picasso, Stravinsky, Kafka, Proust, Brecht, Joyce, Eliot (Ⅰ) Background of Producing Modernism Modernism and postmodernism are cultural formations that accompany specific stages of capitalism 1. Market capitalism: 18th-19th C. Steam locomotive Realism 2. Monopoly capitalism: Late 19th C to WWII Electricity and automobile Modernism 3. Multinational/consumer capitalism Nuclear and electronics Postmodernism (Ⅱ) Definition and Major Characters 1. Modernism is a cultural movement that generally includes the progressive art and architecture, design, literature, music, dance, painting and other visual arts which emerged in the beginning of the 20th century , particularly in the years following World War I. 2. The artistic expressions of this avant-garde movement include