英國現(xiàn)代和后現(xiàn)代文學(xué)

1、 Click to edit Master text stylesSecond levelThird levelFourth levelFifth levelClick to edit Master title style Foreign Language Teaching and Research PressClick to edit Master text stylesSecond levelThird levelFourth levelFifth levelClick to edit Master title style英語國家概況 British LiteratureThe Unite

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 (主觀), 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