外教社2024版）：新编英国文学史教程 Unit 12 PPT课件.pptx

Unit12FindeSiècleandEarlyTwentieth-CenturyLiterature

Overview1.HistoricalbackgroundOverwhelmedwiththemoodsofpessimism,skepticismandbewildermentb.TheinevitabledeclineoftheBritishEmpire

KeyWordsModernizationDefinition:Modernizationisalongopen-endedprocessthatfacilitatesaseriesofeconomic,socialandculturaltransformations.Features:TherationalizationofmanThefalloftraditionalruralcommunities

KeyWordsTheWara.TheFirstWorldWar:LeavingBritishpeoplewithmosthorrendousexperiencesb.Warpoets.Justnameafew:RupertBrook(1887–1915),SiegfriedSassoon(1886–1967)andWilfredOwen(1893–1918)

KeyWordsSocialDisintegrationSocialdisintegrationfeaturesthemodernworldandgivesrisetoaseriesofcrisesthatstillremainsunresolvedtoday.Causesa.Theprofit-orientedcapitalistsystemb.Thedownfallofruraleconomyc.Thedeclineoftheempire

QuestionsforCriticalThinking1.?Whatarethemajorcharacteristicsoftheearly20th-centuryEnglishsociety?2.?Whyismodernizationoftennegativelyrepresentedinliteraryworksofthattime?

ImportantFeaturesof

Early20th-CenturyLiterature1.?TheProsperityofPoetrya.Theearly20thcenturywasagoldentimeforpoetrywiththeemergenceofmanyoutstandingpoets:W.B.Yeats,ThomasHardy,W.H.Auden,RudyardKipling,A.E.HousemanandJohnMasefield.b.“TheGeorgianpoetry”vs“warpoets”2.?TheSpiritofFindeSièclea.Apervasivemoodofuncertaintyandpessimismb.Thespiritoffindesièclegaveasymptomaticreadingofmodernity.c.Pavedwayforthemodernistmovement

QuestionsforCriticalThinking1.?Whatledtothenewprogressofpoetryintheearly20thcentury?2.?WhatarethemajorcharacteristicsofFin-de-siècleliterature?

WritersandWorksThomasHardy(1840–1928)AKeenObserverofEnglishRuralLifeLiteraryAchievementsThefirstseries“RomancesandFantasies”:APairofBlueEyes(1873),TheTrumpetMajor(1880),AGroup