American_modernism__美国现代主义.ppt

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1、AmericanLiteratureModernismSectionOneAmericanModernismSectionTwoModernPoetrySectionThreeAmericanDramaSectionFourModernNovelsAmericanModernism(1918—1945)AmericanModernismBackgroundsofAmericanModernismDefinitionandFeaturesofAmericanModernismBackgroundofModernism1TheEffectoftheFirstWorldWarandtheGreatD

2、epression:2NewTheoriesandIdeasa.German:KarlMarxandNietzscheb.Austrian:SigmundFreudc.WilliamJamesandCarlJungd.FrenchImpressionism,GermanExpressionism‘andCubismImpressionismExpressionismCubismDefinitionofModernismDuringthefirstdecadesofthe20thcenturymodernismbecameaninternationaltendencyinartandlitera

3、ture.ItbeganinGermanyinthe1890s,andspreadworldwide,andendedintheearly1940s.Itincludedawiderangeofartisticexpressionssuchassymbolism,impressionism,post-impressionism,imagism,expressionismandsoon.Thedistinctivefeatureofliterarymodernismwasitsstrongandconsciousbreakwithtraditionalforms,perceptionsandte

4、chniquesofexpression,anditsgreatconcernwithlanguageandallaspectsofitsmedium.AEzraPound(1885-1975)andImagistMovement(1909—1917)FollowersofPoundBT.S.Eliot(1888—1965)andNewPoetryMovementFollowersofEliotCE.E.Cummings(1894—1962)DThreeTypesofPoetsModernPoetryImagistMovementDefinitionofImagismThreeprincipl

5、esofImagismExamplesofImagistpoetryTheImagistMovement(Imagism)LedbyEzraPoundandflourishedfrom1909to1917,themovementadvancedmodernisminartswhichconcentratedonreformingthemediumofpoetryasopposedtoRomanticism,especiallyTennyson'swordinessandhigh-flownlanguageinpoetry.ThethreeprinciplesfollowedbytheImagi

6、stswere:(1)"Directtreatment"(2)"Economyofexpression"(3)“Freeverse"DirectTreatmentThesubjectofthepoemmustbeexpressedinsuchawayastoresembleitandreproduceitascloselyaspossible.Simplelanguagemustbeusedtocreatean"image"whichthereadercanimmediatelyseeinhisownimagination.Eachwordmustbeusedwithgreatexactitu

7、detoproduceapreciseimageandnothingmore.EconomyofexpressionNowordmustbeusedwhichdoesnotcontributedirectlytotheimage.Thelanguagemustbeconcentrated.Theremustbenodrawingofconclusions,noexplanations.Freeve