英国现代和后现代文学.ppt

Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press  British Literature The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland CONTENT The Old English Period and Middle English Period (450-1500) I The Renaissance (1500-1660) II The Neo-Classical Period (1660-1785) III The Romantic Period (1785-1830) IV The Modern Period (1914-1945) VI The Victorian Period (1832-1901) V The Postmodern Period (1945- ) VII The Modern Period (1914-1945) 6.2 Poetry 6.3 Drama 6.1 Fiction VI 6.1 Fiction Fiction Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) James Joyce (1882-1941) D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) 6.1 Fiction Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) The Heart of Darkness (1902) 6.1 Fiction Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)—a central figure of the “Bloomsbury Group” Mrs. Dalloway (1925) To The Lighthouse (1927) Orlando (1928) A Room of One’s Own (1929) 6.1 Fiction A: 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 emotional reactions in an unpunctuated or disjointed form. Q. What is Stream of Consciousness? 6.1 Fiction James Joyce (1882-1941) Ulysses (1922) Finnegans Wake (1939) 6.1 Fiction D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) Sons and Lovers (1913) Rainbow (1915) Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) 6.2 Poetry Poetry William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) 6.2 Poetry William 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 Poetry Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) The Waste Land (1922) Four Quartets (1935-1942) 6.3 Drama Drama George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898) Widower’s Houses (1892) Mrs. Warren’s Profession (1893) Arms and the Man (1894) Pygmalion (1913) Saint Joan (1924) The Postmodern Period (