Modern-American-Literature分析上课讲义.pptVIP

1918-1945 Modern American Literature American literature after World War I American Literature between World War I and II (1914 —— 1945) Modernism（现代主义） appeared after World War I cutting off history and a sense of despair and loss refusing to accept the traditional concept of value and all traditional ideological influences Features or changes of the period 1, Increasing industrialization 2, Deepening urbanization 3, High speed development of technology and science 4, Trauma of the first world war 5,1930s economic depression 6,Collapse of social value system 7,Dropping moral standards 8,Common depression , fear ,sense of loss Features of the works Freud’s psychoanalysis ,William James stream of consciousness theory and archetypal symbol had great impact on the writers of modern American writers. They pay special attention to the inner world of the people, during this period ,the most compelling literature movement is the writer’s self exile, also known as the second American renaissance 特征：美国现代主义文学不再以塑造人物性格为核心，以情节为主的结构框架，而是以非连续性的结构，碎片式的描写，高度实验性的语言为其基本特征，以表达与传统的决裂。 美国现代主义文学的特征也体现在对“人”这一概念的诠释上，通过注重人性的丑恶面，阐述人物的非英雄化本质，以及内心世界的混乱无序，呈现出一幅病态的物质世界里生活着一群病态的人的画面。 美国现代主义文学还体现在对意识流的成熟运用上，其实质上是突破了传统现实文学的时空结构，从根本上否定事件，思维发展的连贯性和因果关系。 Modern American Literature American Literature between World War I and II (1914 —— 1945) poets (imagists)意象派诗人 whose poems focus on strong, concrete images Ezra Pound（伊兹拉. 庞德）—— the beginner of the Imagists T. S. Eliot（艾略特） dominated the Modernism in poetry The Waste Land《荒原》(1922) Robert Frost（罗伯特. 弗罗斯特） one of the undisputed masters of modern American poetry the best known and the most welcome of the New England poets North of Boston《波士顿以北》(1914) American Literature between World War I and II (1914 —— 1945) Modern American Literature poets (imagists)意象派诗人 E. E. Cummings （肯明斯） Wallace Stevens （华莱士. 史蒂文斯） William Carlos （威廉.卡洛斯） the forerunner of concrete poetry（具像诗） and visual poetry（视觉诗歌） Modern American Literature American Literature between Wo