(英文版)英国现代主义文学English literature_Modernism.pptVIP

20th century English literature Definition excludes from the external, objecive, material world against realism expresses the inner feeling focuses on the viewpoint of a single confused individual irrational philosophy base as theoretical base Blackground Two World Wars impaired the power of Britain Blackground Marx and Engels issued Communist Manifesto Einstein put forward Theory of Relativity which renewed the concepts of time and space tremendously Great progress in philosophy: analytical philosophy, Non-rationalism philosophy Leading writer Quotes What is the meaning of life?... a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations(=enlightment), matches struck unexpectedly in the dark. Main Works Mrs. Dalloway To the Lighthouse Orlando: A biography A Room of Ones Own Leading writer Main works Ulysses Finnegans Wake Leading writer Main Works Sons and lovers( Lawrences finest achievement) The rainbow Leading poet Main works The Wild Swans at Coole(柯尔庄园) Michael Robartes and the Dancer The Tower Leading poet Main Works The Waste Land Four Quarters(四重奏) Main Dramatist Main Works * 模板来自于 / * 模板来自于 / * 模板来自于 / * 模板来自于 * The two catastrophic(disasterous) World Wars severely weakened British power and brought great sufferings to its peple as well. The economic recession and mental depression impacted British severely. Many British were disappointed with capitalism. Sun-never-set Empire finally collapsed In 1848, Scientific Socialism emerged, guiding the class of workers. Meanwhile,it also gave an illustration of reforming capitalism. October Revolution in 1917(Russia) confirmed peoples belief. Fiction Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) English novelist, critic, essayist Born and brought up in upper-class and literary family. Bisexual, feminist, married on