安徽三联学院外语学院美国文学课件Chapter 20 Salinger and Updike.pptVIP

Salinger and Updike Contents I. Postwar RealismП. Representatives:Norman MailerJerome David SalingerJohn Updike 1. Features of Postwar Realism I. Postwar Realism 1) Postwar realism has been a search for vision that can relate an oppressed response to society and history. It has brought a new moral emphasis to fiction, a hunger to overcome despair, nihilism, and brutality through applying moral energy to culture. 2) Postwar realism especially concerns with human existence fighting for its selfhood in an era of modern mass society and power. 3) The prosperous literature produced by ethnic gr