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1、Modernism&Postmodernism literature王潇潇20王梦雅23徐艳艳24Outline1.Definition2.Background3.Characteristics4.Mainwriters5.InfluenceModernismModernismisaphilosophicalmovementinthearts,thatalongwithculturaltrendsandchanges,arosefromwide-scaleandfar-reachingtrans
2、formationsinWesternsocietyinthelate19thandearly20thcenturies.AmongthefactorsthatshapedModernismwasthedevelopmentofmodernindustrialsocietiesandtherapidgrowthofcities,followedthenbythehorrorofWorldWarI.ModernismalsorejectedthecertaintyofEnlightenmentth
3、inking,andmanymodernistsrejectedreligiousbelief.DefinitionModernismisaveryvagueandconfusingterm.Inliterature,itincludesvariousmodernschoolssuchasimagism,cubism（立体主义）,surrealism（超现实主义),symbolism,expressionism,dadaism（达达主义）,streamofconsciousness（意识流）an
4、dexistentialism（存在主义）.DefinitionBackgroundTheinfluencesofthetwoWorldWarsonBritainThecatastrophicFirstWorldWartremendouslyweakenedtheBritishEmpireandbroughtaboutgreatsufferingstoitspeopleaswell.Thepostwareconomicdislocationandspiritualdisillusionprodu
5、cedaprofoundimpactupontheBritishpeople,whocametoseetheprevalentwretchednessincapitalism.TheSecondWorldWarmarkedthelaststageofthedisintegrationoftheBritishEmpire.Britainsufferedheavylossesinthewar:thousandsofpeoplewerekilled;theeconomywasruined;andalm
6、ostallitsformercolonieswerelost.Theoncesun-never-setEmpirefinallycollapsed.Characteristics1.uses images ("word pictures") and symbols as typical and frequent literary techniques 2.uses colloquial language rather than formal languageage3.uses languag
7、e as a special medium that influences what that piece of literature can do or can be saw the piece of literature as an object crafted by an artist using particular techniques, crafts, skills (recall how the Romantics thought the piece of literature w
8、as a work of genius that somehow appears full-blown from theimagination of the genius). Form, style, and technique thus become as important--if not more so--than content or substance.Characteristics4.uses language in a very self-conscious way, seeing
