美国现代主义文学.ppt

Modernism The modernism period in America literature lasted from 1914 to 1945 with the first world war as a starting point and the second world war ending point. Surely, it also experienced the 1930s economic depression. In the first world war , America got considerable benefits with minimal cost. But many artist and thinkers with suffering consciousness felt the terribleness of modern wars . Their heroism in mind gradually disappeared . Some of them going into battle suffered the sight of blood and all kinds of disasters . After back to America , they found that the social reality had experienced great change. Features or Changes of the period 1、increasing industrialization工业化程度的加剧 2、deepening urbanization城市化进程的加深 3、high-speed development of technology and science 科技的高速发展 4、traumatic of the first world war 第一次世界大战的创伤 5、 the 1930s economic depression 30年代的经济大萧条 6、 collapse of social value system 社会价值体系的崩溃 7、dropping moral standards 道德标准的江河日下 8、common depression, fear, sense of loss of Americans Representative writers and works 1、Edwin Arlington Robinson,1869～1935 （Captain Craig）、（The Town Down the River,1909）、 （The Man Against the Sky,1916） 2、 Robert Frost,1874～1963 （A Boy’s Wish,1913）、 （Mending Wall）、 （After Apple-Picking）、 （The Death of The Hired Man） 3、 Ezra Pound,1885～1972 （Personae）、 (The Spirit of Romance)、 (Polite Essays)、 (The Literary Essays of Ezra Pound) 4、 Ernest Hemingway,1899～1961 （The Sun Also Rises,1926）、 （Farewell to Arms,1929）、 （For Whom the Bell Tolls,1940）、 （The Old Man and the Sea,1952） 5、 William Faulkner,1897～1962 （Soldier’s Pay,1920）、 （The Sound and the Fury,1929）、（As I Lay Dying,1930）、(Go Down Moses,1942) Features of the works Freud ‘s psychoanalysis , William James’s stream of consciousness theory and archetypal symbol had great pact on the writers of American modernism period . They pay special attention to the inner world of people. During this period the most compelling literature movement is the writer‘s self exile, also known as“