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1、TwentiethCenturyLiteratureⅠDefinethefollowingtermsModernismModernisminEnglishliteratureprevailedduringthe20sand30softhe20thcentury.Itwasamovementofexperimentsinnewtechniqueinwriting.Modernismtakestheirrationalphilosophyandthetheoryofpsycho-analysisasitstheoreticalbase.Themodernistwritersconce
2、ntratemoreontheprivateandsubjective,mainlyconcernedwiththeinnerbeingofanindividual.Thereforetheypaymoreattentiontothepsychictimethanthechronologicalone.Themajorthemesofthemodernistliteraturearethedistorted,alienatedandillrelationshipsbetweenmanandnature,manandsociety,manandman,andmanandhimsel
3、fStreamofConsciousnessvStreamofconsciousnessisapsychologicaltermindicatingthefluxofconsciousandsubconsciousthoughtsandimpressionsmovinginthemindatanygiventimeindependentlyoftheperson’swill.vInlate19thcentury,theliterarydeviceof“interiormonologue”wasoriginatedinFranceasanapplicationofmodernpsy
4、chologicalknowledgetoliterarycreation.Inthe20thcentury,undertheinfluenceofFreud’stheoryofpsychologicalanalysis,anumberofwritersadoptedthe“streamofconsciousness”methodofnovelwriting.Thestrikingfeaturethesenovelistsistheirdepictionofthecharacters’mentalandemotionalreactionstoexternalevents,rath
5、erthaneventsthemselves.ⅡFillintheblanks1.AbroadwithFrieda,Lawrencefinished____,theautobiographicalnovelatwhichhehadbeenworkingoffandonforyears.2.____isthemostoutstandingstreamofconsciousnessnovelist.ⅢGiveabriefanalysisofTess’tragedyinTessoftheD’UrbervillesTessoftheD’UrbervillesThemesnThenovel
6、isafiercecriticismofthehypocriticalmoralityofthesocietyandthecruelandinhumanexploitationofthecapitalistswhoinvadedtheEnglishcountryanddestroyedthepeasantryfromtheroot.Tess,abeautiful,innocent,sweet-naturedandhard-workingcountrygirl,iseasilytakeninandabusedbythehypocriticalrich,constantlysuppr
7、essedbythesocialconventions,brutallyexploitedbytheinhumancapitalists,andeventuallyexecutedbytheunfairlegalsystem.Sheisatypicalvictimofthesociety.Povertyofthefamily,inhumanity,injusticeandhypocrisyofthesocietydecidehertragedy.Thetwomen-theonew