英国现代和后现代文学

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2、d Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandCONTENTThe Old English Period and Middle English Period (450-1500)IThe Renaissance (1500-1660)IIThe Neo-Classical Period (1660-1785)IIIThe Romantic Period (1785-1830)IVThe Modern Period (1914-1945)VIThe Victorian Period (1832-1901)VThe Postmodern Period

3、 (1945- )VIIThe Modern Period (1914-1945) 6.2 Poetry 6.3 Drama 6.1 Fiction VI6.1 FictionFiction Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) James Joyce (1882-1941)D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) 6.1 FictionJoseph Conrad (1857-1924) The Heart of Darkness (1902) 6.1 FictionVirginia Woolf (1882-194

4、1)a central figure of the “Bloomsbury Group Mrs. Dalloway (1925)To The Lighthouse (1927)Orlando (1928)A Room of Ones Own (1929)6.1 FictionA: Stream of consciousness makes it first appearance in the late 19th century. It is a kind of literary technique which depicts the characters mental and emotiona

5、l reactions in an unpunctuated or disjointed form.Q. What is Stream of Consciousness?6.1 FictionJames Joyce (1882-1941)Ulysses (1922) Finnegans Wake (1939) 6.1 FictionD. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)Sons and Lovers (1913)Rainbow (1915)Lady Chatterleys Lover (1928) 6.2 PoetryPoetry William Butler Yeats (18

6、65-1939) Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) 6.2 PoetryWilliam Butler Yeats (1865-1939)won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923“The Wild Swans at Coole “Michael Robartes and the Dancer“The Tower 6.2 PoetryThomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) The Waste Land (1922) Four Quartets (1935-1942) 6.3 DramaDrama

7、George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898)Widowers Houses (1892) Mrs. Warrens Profession (1893)Arms and the Man (1894)Pygmalion (1913)Saint Joan (1924)The Postmodern Period (1945- ) 7.2 Drama 7.1 Fiction VII7.1 FictionA: 1) Modernism tends to present a fragmented view of hu

8、man subjectivity (主观), but presents that fragmentation as something tragic, something to be lamented as a loss. While Postmodernism doesnt lament the idea of fragmentation but rather celebrates it.Q. Whats the distinction between Modernism and Postmodernism?7.1 Fiction2) Modernists look for buried m

9、eaning below confusing surfaces, while Postmodernists abandon that search.7.1 FictionGeorge Orwell (1903-1950)Nineteen Eighty Four (1948)7.2 DramaSamuel Beckett (1906-1989)Waiting for Godot (1952)Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969 for his writing, whichin new forms for the novel and dramain the destitutio