美国现代主义文学ppt课件

1、The Age Of Modernism,From team 10,1,Time,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. 美国现代主义时期以一战为起点，经历了大萧条一直延续到二战。,2,Background,Econom

2、y The World War I Cultural Background,3,Economy,After the first world war, there was a booming industry and material prosperity. However,the outbrust of the finacial crisis was a great disaster.The whole capitalist countrues was struck by catastrophy. 第一次世界大战后，美国的工业快速发展，经济繁荣。但是1929年爆发的经济危机却给予美国以及整个资

3、本主义世界的经济以重创。,4,The World War I,As a result of the First World War,Social breakdown and individual powerlessness and hopelessness became part of the American experience.There was a decline in moral standard and this period was best described as a spiritual wasteland. There was the loss of faith. Peop

4、le lived a purposeless and chaotic life. 一战后，社会崩溃，人们感到绝望和无力，道德底线下降。这一时期是美国精神的荒原，人们失去了信仰，过着无意义的混沌的生活。,5,Cultural Background,A list of philosophical theories were widely spread in American. Marxism 马克思理论 Freuds psychoanalysis弗洛伊德的心理分析 William Jamess stream of consciousness theory 威廉詹姆斯的意识流学说 Archetypa

5、l symbol荣格的原型象征理论,6,Cultural Influence,Those theories 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 writers self exile,also known as “the second American Renaissanc

6、e”. 这些理论对美国现代主义作家的文学创作产生了巨大影响。他们特别注重对人们的内心世界的挖掘。这一时期最引人注目的文学运动就是作家的自我流放，也称“第二次美国文艺复兴”。,7,Characteristics,1. Contradictory 矛盾性 2. Arrangement 排列性 3. Optional 随意性 4. No continuity 不连贯性 5. Extreme stretch of metaphor 比喻的极度引伸 6. The combination of fiction and fact 虚构与事实的结合 7. Absurd 荒诞的,8,Poetry,Ezra Po

7、und 埃兹拉庞德 RobertFrost 罗伯特弗罗斯特 WallaceStevens 华莱士史蒂文斯,9,Ezra Pound 埃兹拉庞德 (18851972),ThefatherofmodernAmericanpoetry ThefatherofImagistpoetry 美国现代诗歌创始人 意象派诗歌之父 TheCantos诗章 InaStationoftheMetro 地铁站里,10,RobertFrost罗伯特弗罗斯特（1874-1963）,FireandIce火与冰 TheRoadNottaken 未选择的道路 NorthofBoston 波士顿之北,11,WallaceStev

8、ens 华莱士史蒂文斯（1879-1955）,Harmonium风琴 TheManWiththeBlueGuitar 弹蓝吉他的人 SundayMorning 星期天早晨,12,Novel,Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald 弗朗西斯斯科特基菲茨杰拉德 Ernest Hemingway 欧内斯特海明威 William Faulkner 威廉福克纳,13,Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald弗朗西斯斯科特基菲茨杰拉德,TheGreatGatsby 了不起的盖茨比 TheSideofParadise 人间天堂 TenderistheNight 夜色温柔,1

9、4,William Faulkner威廉福克纳(18971962),The Sound and the Fury愤怒与喧嚣 As I Lay Dying我弥留之际 Go Down Moses 去吧，摩西,15,Ernest Hemingway欧内斯特海明威(18991961),The representative of the lost generation PulitzerPrize NoblePrize The Old Man and the Sea 老人与海 For Whom the Bell Tolls 丧钟为谁而鸣 The Sun Also Rises 太阳照常升起,16,About

10、 Hemingway And His Works,Because most of his works take the war as background, describe the pains and hurt the war brings to human being,and reflect a younger generations aimlessness and loss of the beliefs after the World War I,these works immediately won the responses from many people who survived the war physically but were afterwards spiritually and morally adrift.Then,Hemingway became the sp