英国现代主义文学Englishliteratur课件.ppt

1、2021/3/30120th century English literature2021/3/302Definitionexcludes from the external,objecive,material excludes from the external,objecive,material world world against realism against realism expresses the inner feelingexpresses the inner feelingfocuses on the viewpoint of a single confused focus

2、es on the viewpoint of a single confused individualindividualirrational philosophy base as theoretical baseirrational philosophy base as theoretical base精品资料2021/3/304 你怎么称呼老师？如果老师最后没有总结一节课的重点的难点，你是否会认为老师的教学方法需要改进？你所经历的课堂，是讲座式还是讨论式？教师的教鞭“不怕太阳晒，也不怕那风雨狂，只怕先生骂我笨，没有学问无颜见爹娘”“太阳当空照，花儿对我笑，小鸟说早早早”2021/3/305

3、BlackgroundTwo World Wars impaired the power of BritainThe two catastrophic(disasterous)World Wars severely weakened British power and brought great sufferings to its peple as well.The economic recession and mental depression impacted British severely.Many British were disappointed with capitalism.S

4、un-never-set Empire finally collapsed2021/3/306BlackgroundMarx and Engels issued Communist ManifestoEinstein put forward Theory of Relativity which renewed the concepts of time and space tremendouslyGreat progress in philosophy:analytical philosophy,Non-rationalism philosophy In 1848,Scientific Soci

5、alism emerged,guiding the class of workers.Meanwhile,it also gave an illustration of reforming capitalism.October Revolution in 1917(Russia)confirmed peoples belief.2021/3/307FictionFiction2021/3/308Leading writerVirginia Woolf(1882-1941)English novelist,critic,essayist Born and brought up in upper-

6、class and literary family.Bisexual,feminist,married oncesuffered from depression after her parents died.Suicided2021/3/309QuotesWhat is the meaning of life?.a simple question;one that tended to close in on one with years.The great revelation had never come.The great revelation perhaps never did come

7、.Instead there were little daily miracles,illuminations(=enlightment),matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.Virgina and her devoted husband2021/3/3010 Main WorksMrs.Dalloway To the LighthouseOrlando:A biography A Room of Ones Own Stream of consciousness(non-fiction work)Mrs.Dalloway To the Lightho

8、useOrlando:A biography A Room of Ones Own literary technique which was pioneered by Dorthy Richardson,Virginia Woolf,and James Joyce.Stream of consciousness is characterized by a flow of thoughts and images,which may not always appear to have a coherent(=clear)structure or cohesion.The plot line may

9、 weave in and out of time and place,carrying the reader through the life span of a character or further along a timeline to incorporate(=combined)the lives(and thoughts)of characters from other time periods.Important character traits are revealed through an exploration of what is going on in the min

10、d.2021/3/3011Leading writerJames Joyce(1882-1941)Irish novelist,famous for stream of the consciousnessone of the founders of Postmodernismled a destitute and homeless life,suffer from eye illness 2021/3/3012Main worksUlyssesFinnegans Wakerecords a salesman Leopold Blooms a single day in June 16,1904

11、 in Dublin.depicts a dream of Mr.Earwicker,a Dublin innkeeper,in a dream languageextensive use of inter monolog with complex network of symbolic parallelscreative use of invented words,puns(双关语)and allusions（典故）.2021/3/3013Leading writerD.H.Lawrence(1885-1930)British novelist,critic,poet,playwright(

12、剧作家)and painter.called on natural lifeThe greatest imaginative novelist of our generation.by E.M.Fosterespecially controversial and some works were banned as pornographic(色情的).2021/3/3014Main WorksSons and lovers(Lawrences finest achievement)The rainbowlies in the psychological development of charac

13、ters and in his energetic criticism of dehumanizing(丧失人性的)effect of the capitalist industrialization on hunman nature.a story about three generations of the Brangwen family on Marsh farm.2021/3/3015PoetryPoetry2021/3/3016Leading poetWilliam Butler Yeats(1865-1939)Irish poet,dramatist and prose write

14、ra towering figure in 20th century literature in English,a master of traditional verse(=poetry)forms winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923,famous for poetry,always interested in mystical theories and images,the supernatural,the esoteric and the occult.2021/3/3017Main worksThe Wild Swans a

15、t Coole(柯尔庄园)Michael Robartes and the DancerThe Tower2021/3/3018Leading poetT.S Eliot(1888-1965)American-English poet,dramatist and literary criticwinner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948Nothing Can Be Done,But Something Can Be Said2021/3/3019Main WorksThe Waste Land Four Quarters(四重奏)Burnt

16、Norton（焚毁的诺顿）East CokerThe Dry SalvagesLittle Gidding(吉丁村)Time and eternity,history and the present,the intervention(=interference)of the divine(=priest)in hunman life and the possibility of reconciliation(=settlement)2021/3/3020DramaDrama2021/3/3021Main DramatistGeorge Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)Irish

17、dramatist,literary critic,socialist sopkenman the Fabian Society the resentment of English society winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 unpatriotic remarks2021/3/3022Main WorksPlays Pleasant and UnpleasantWidowers Houses(鳏夫的房产)Cashel Byrons ProfessionMrs.Warrens ProfessionArms and the manPygmalion