英国现代主义文学

英国现代主义文学

Thomas Hardy 托马斯·哈代

●作品特点：

transitional period

pessimistic novels of rural life

Nostalgic touch in his description of the primitive rural life

man is shown driven by his inherent nature which prompt him to search for happiness or success and thus set him in conflict with the environment.

The outside environment produces unfortunate coincidences.

Man proves impotent before his ordained destiny.

This pessimistic view of life predominates most of his works and earns him a reputation as a writer of natualism.

conflicts between the traditional and the modern, between the old rural value of respectability and honesty and the new utilitarian commercialism, between the old, false social moral and the natural human passion

novels of character and environment

a naturalistic and a critical realist writer

总结：

（乡村环境）primitive rural life in Wessex

（人在环境下力量渺小）environment；impotent

（自然主义）natualism

（道德标准）false social code toward women

●代表作：

Tess of the D’Urbervilles（德伯家的菜丝）

Jude the Obscure（无名的裘德）

The Return of the Native（还乡）

Far From the Madding Crowd （远离尘嚣）

The Mayor of Casterbridge

●德伯家的苔丝：

the hypocritical morality of the bourgeois society and the capitalist invasion into the country

The injustice of existence

Changing ideas of social class in Victorian England

Men dominating women

hypocrisy of the social structures and moral codes

John Galsworthy 约翰·高尔斯

The Forsyte Saga 《富尔赛世家》

W. Somerset Maugham 毛姆

Of Human Bondage

The Moon and Sixpence

E.M.Forster

A Passage to India

A Room with a View

Aspects of the Novel

Joseph Conrad 康拉德

Heart of Darkness

Lord Jim

Henry James

The Wings of Dove

The Golden Bowl

He is first of all a stylist, a master of narrative techniques.

Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳

he greatest dramatist in English literature in the 20th century.

Pygmalion 皮格马利翁

William Butler Yeats

Irish poet

后现代文学

the means and methods of exploring it are infinitely richer and more varied than ever before. Virginia Woolf 伍尔夫

●代表作：

Mrs. Dalloway

To the Lighthouse

The Waves (these 3 novels established her reputation.)

A Room of One’s Own

Three Guineas (classics of the feminist movement.)

●特点：

fractured narrative and chronology

Emphases the psychological aspects

David Herbert Lawrence D.H.劳伦斯

●代表作：

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Sons and Lovers

Women in Love