English literature in 20th century 20世纪英国文学

1920s:the best literary works of modernism appeared one after another.
Famous person:
James Joyce(Irish novelist) Virginia Woolf(brilliant womanwriter)
Different kinds of philosophical ideas appeared in the Western world. In the mid-19th century,Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels put forward theory which became the guiding theory for the steuggle of the working class and encouraged the oppressed people to fight for their faith in the church. Albert Einstein‘s theory of relativity provided new Ideas for the concepts of time and space.based on These ideas,HenriBergson established his irrational philosophy.
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Briefly introduction Poets of Realism
Poets of ModeHale Waihona Puke Baidunism
In a literary sense, the 20th century can be said to have begun in the 1890’s, in the political sense it was ushered by the First World War (1919-1918) which had a very shocking influence upon Great Britain, which cost it almost a whole generation of most promising young men.
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1928 Died on January 11. His heart was buried at Stinsford with Emma, and his ashes in Poets' Corner.
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•Born in 1840, Thomas Hardy became known as a prominent novelist and poet in British and American literature. •He published 8 volumes of poetry, one being published posthumously(于著作者死后出版地) . •Hardy’s poetry is commonly referred to as pessimistic and was not received well during his lifetime. •One of the most common elements seen throughout Hardy’s poetry is his use of autobiographical information within the poems
This new tendency was found in Oscar Wilde‘s writing
The second period(1918-1939)
It provided a favourable condition for the further development of modernism.
Chapter 8 English Literature in the 20th Century
General View of English Literature in the 20th Century
English Poetry in the 20th Century
English Novels in the 20th Century
Literary Characteristics The important and striking features of the 20th century English literature:realism and modernism.
Features of modernism: (1) Complexity (2) Radical and deliberate break with traditional aesthetic principles (3) Back to Aristotle
Representatives: John Osborne、Kingsley Amis、John Wain and John Braine
In late 1960s to1970s: representative novelist: William Golding、 John Fowles and Graham Greene. In 1950s,appeared new type of plays. Samuel Beckett(Waiting for Godot)
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1873 Gave up architecture to devote himself entirely to writing.
1874 Married on September 17 to Emma Lavinia Gifford. 1914 Married his secretary Florence Emily Dugdale, who was 39 years his junior.
* In the early years of this century, a major technical revolution occurred in English, as well as in American, poetic theory and practice. W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound were the leading characters in this revolution. In different ways, they revolted against the imprecise language and sentimental emotions of the late Victorian poets. The result of this revolt was the literary movement that has come to be called Modernism and has great influence on the poetry as well as the fiction of the century.
Literary Characteristics
History Background
For Britain ,it was a time of declining in national fortune and power. During the 19th century, in order to pay for the wars,Britain had to give up many of its investments abroad. Since World War Two, Britain has become subordinate to the United States..
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Thomas Hardy
Poets of Realism
Alfred Edward Housman
Rupert Brooke
Philip Larkin
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(1840-1928)
Thomas Hardy (托马斯 哈代)was a English poet, a last and one of the greatest of Victorian novelist, famous for his depictions of the semi-fictional country ―Wessex‖. Hardy‘s works reflected his stoical pessimism and sense of tragedy in human life.
The third period (20th century):
This is the period of the contemporary English literature. In poetry,‖purity of diction‖: Ted Hughes、Philip Larkin In fiction and drama: appeared a group of vigorous young writer,called ―the Angry Young Men‖(1960-1970)
* In the years that followed, the colonies of the Empire gradually broke away and formed independent states until the British Empire was transformed into the British Commonwealth in 1931, consisting only Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, etc., all of which were joined to the mother country in only a loose association. The downward slide of Great Britain, which was brought by the first war, continued through the second (1939-1945), in which it was finally destroyed as a great world power.
There are three periods in English literature development.
The first period(1900-1918):
The playwright: Bernard. Novelist:John Galsworthy;H.G.Well; Arnold Bennett Poet: THOMAS HARDY
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Life experience
1840 Born at Higher Bockhampton, Dorset. His father : a stonemason and local builder. His mother : well-read and educated Thomas until he went to school. 1848 First schooling at Bockhampton. 1856 Studied architecture and continued his reading in English and Latin. 1862 Went to London. Assistant to Arthur Blomfield in designing church restorations. 1862 Won two architectural prizes. 1865 Writing poems at this time.
English Drama in the 20th Century
Proletarian Literature in the 20th Century
Ⅰ. General View of English Literature in the 20th Century
History Background