美國文學(xué)主要流派及其代表作(已改無錯字)
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【正文】 , accidental circumstances and concerts efforts on the past of influential writers, some politically conservative and some radical. It includes a wide range of artistic expressions such as symbolism, impressionism, postimpressionism, futurism, imagism, vorticism, expressionism, dada, and surrealism. Its major features are:(1) Modernism dramatizes discontinuity and imminent severance from the past while making determined efforts to use the past, its values and artistic forms, lay emphasis on incorporating them in new literary production.(2) Modernists have a sense of fragmentation in social munities and the fragmentation within the individual himself.(3) The distinctive feature of literary modernism is its strong and conscious break with traditional perceptions and techniques of expression, and its great concern with language all aspects of its medium.Its representatives and their major works are:Thomas Stearns Eliot: The Hollow Men (1922) Ash Wednesday (1930)。Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms (1929),The Old Man and the Sea (1952)Postwar Realism Postwar realism is different from the normative realism of the 19th century. It has been search for vision that can relate an oppressed response to society and history to an awareness of individual loneliness and moral and transcendental hunger both to differentiate and reunite the self and the society and it is not merely a return to the old tradition of realism. Postwar realism embodies great changes in literature along with the great changes in society.Postwar realist writers focus more on spiritual aspects of human life while revealing denouncing the dark forces in society. Its representatives and their major works are: James Thurber: New Yorker (19251933)。 Updike: The Centaur (1964)Postmodernism 1963 is identified as the beginning of Postmodernism. It is characterized by a multiplicity of individual voices. And postmodern fiction shares a mon sense that a crisis is at hand for society and for literature and that all forms of dogma, convention, ideology need to be reexamined and
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