1. The 20th Century Literature
---The Age of Modernity
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2. Modernism
Modernism is a term for a number of tendencies in the arts, which were prominent in the first half of the 20th century.
Modernism rejected the traditional (Victorian and Edwardian) framework of narrative, description, and rational exposition in poetry and prose, in favour of a stream-of-consciousness presentation of personality, a dependence on the poetic image as the essential vehicle of aesthetic communication, and upon myth as a characteristic structural principle.
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3. Modernist works (for instance, the poetry of Eliot and Pound) may have to the unfamiliar reader a tendency to dissolve into chaos of sharp atomistic impressions, and some critics have deplored their drift towards what has been described as “dehumanization. In short, alienation and loneliness are the basic themes of modernism .
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4. Modernism modernist fiction modernist drama
modernist poetry
Modernism modernist fiction
modernist drama
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5. Modernist Poetry The Imagist Movement 17th century metaphysical poetry
French symbolist poetry
T. S. Eliot
poets
W. B. Yeats
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6. Modernist Fiction Heroic age of the modern novel(1912-1930)
Joseph Conrad,
James Joyce,
Main writers: D. H. Lawrence,
Virginia Woolf,
E. M. Forster
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7. Three new trends of fiction 1. Personal notions of value
2. A new view of time
3. stream-of-consciousness
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8. Theme of modern fiction
The possibility of love, the establishment of emotional communication in a community of private consciousness.
The search for communion and the inescapable isolation of Leopold Bloom in Ulysses is symbolic of the human condition. The theme of all Lawrence's novels is human relationships.
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9. Modernist Drama
Since the end of World War Ⅱ, drama has been the major area of literary innovation.
Samuel Beckett changed the course of English drama with his first play Waiting for Godot, which strongly influenced a younger group of playwrights, and which started the history of Drama of Absurdity.
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