美国文学史modernism imagism名词解释.pdf

Modernism Imagism 01 Modernism 02 03 02 1 The Effect of the First World War and the Great Depression 2 New Theories and Ideas a. German: Karl Marx and Nietzsche the “ fidelity to experience and probability of motive” b. Austrian: Sigmund Freud 此处添加标题文本 c. William James and Carl Jung d. French Impressionism, German Expressionism and Cubism 02  During the first decades of the 20th century, modernism became an international tendency in art and literature.  It began in Germany in the 1890s, and spread worldwide, and ended in the early 1940s.  It included a wide range of artistic expressions such as symbolism, impressionism, post-impressionism, imagism, expressionism and so on. 02  Modernism takes the irrational philosophy(非理性哲 学) and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base.  The modernist writers concentrate more on the private and subjunctive than on the public and objective, mainly concerned with the inner of an individual.  The characteristics of modernists writings are as below: complexity and obscurity; the use of symbols; allusion; irony. 02  The distinctive feature of literary modernism was its strong and conscious break with traditional forms, perceptions and techniques of expression, and its great concern with language and all aspects of its medium. 01