山东农业大学精品课程《英美文学史》课件：part three.pptVIP

Part III 20th-century Literature 2 world wars 2 generations 2 world wars I. Pre- war and World War I(1914-1918) ------by 1900,population tripled,7.6millions; ------astonishingly wealthy and technologically advanced; ------rivalries of imperial powers; ------over-optimism; ------a crusade for purity and democracy. Propaganda Posters Propaganda Posters II Propaganda Posters III Post-war ---Lost Generation: devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization; ---Experimental drama: tragedy,stark realism,social protest; ---Harlem Renaissance: 1920s,Negroes,new insights into the American experience; ---the Great Depression:migrant farmers; T S Eliot : The Waste Land, The Hollow Men; F S Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby; E Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms; World War II Nationalism and totalitarianism; Post-WWII ---Psychological insights___the Stream of consciousness: ---New narrative techniques: William Faulkner: A Rose for Emily; ---Beat Generation: On the Road; The Howl; ---Absurd Humor: Literary Terms Modernism“On or about December 1910 human nature changed.” The great modernist writer Virginia Woolf wrote this in her essay “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” in 1924. “All human relations shifted,” Woolf continued, “and when human relations change there is at the same time a change in religion, conduct, politics, and literature.” This intentionally provocative statement was hyperbolic in its pinpointing of a date, but almost anyone who looks at the evolution of Western culture must note a distinct change in thought, behavior, and cultural production beginning sometime in the late nineteenth century and coming to full fruition sometime around the Second World War. This change, whether art, technology, philosophy or human behavior, is generally called Modernism. . Modernism’s roots are in the rapidly changing technology of t