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英文名著时时刻刻的介绍

Virginia Woolf

英文名著时时刻刻的介绍

PART 1

Background

英文名著时时刻刻的介绍

Modern literatureTime:1910-1945

Characteristics of ModernismModern literature often features a marked pessimism, a clear rejection of the optimism apparent in Victorian literature. Modern literature often moves beyond the limitations of the Realist novel with a concern for larger factors such as social or historical change ,this is prominent in "stream of consciousness" writing.

英文名著时时刻刻的介绍

The Modernism emphasis on a radical individualism which can be seen in the many literary manifestos ,such as Richard Hollenbeck's ―First German Dada Manifesto‖ of 1918 . Modern literature attempted to move from the bonds of Realist literature and introduce concepts such as disjointed timelines. Modernist literature developed a style that can be characterized by a preoccupation with stylistic novelty, formal fragmentation, multiple perspectives, and alternatives to traditional narrative forms.

英文名著时时刻刻的介绍

World War I

Reason and logic had led people into the horrors of war; the only route to salvation was to reject logic and embrace anarchy and the irrational.

英文名著时时刻刻的介绍

Representative Personage and main articleD. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover Sons and Lovers The Rainbow Women in Love Vile Bodies 《罪恶的躯体》 A Handful of Dust 《一捧尘土》 Brighton Rock 《布赖顿硬糖》 The Power and the Glory《权力与光荣》 The Waste Land

Evelyn Waugh

Graham Greene T. S. Eliot

英文名著时时刻刻的介绍

William Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962)

The Sound and the FuryAs I Lay Dying Light in August

英文名著时时刻刻的介绍

Ulysses (1922) Finnegans Wake (1939) Dubliners (1914) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916).

James Joyce

英文名著时时刻刻的介绍

He was a French novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost Time , earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past. 《追忆逝水年华》 Much of In Search of Lost Time concerns the vast changes, most particularly the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the middle classes, that occurred in France during the Third Republic .Marcel Proust

英文名著时时刻刻的介绍

PART 2

The author

英文名著时时刻刻的介绍

Virginia Woolf(1882.1.25 –1941.3.28) English novelist and essayist. feminist ,Publisher, Critic

Born in LondonOriginally name Adeline Virginia Stephen

英文名著时时刻刻的介绍

Personal life1895: Her mother died ,Virginia's several nervous breakdowns. 1904: her father died she was most alarming collapse 1912: married writer Leonard Woolf. 1917: They founding the Hogarth Press, 1941: On March 28, committed suicide.

英文名著时时刻刻的介绍

I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You

see I can't even write thisproperly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that — everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

英文名著时时刻刻的介绍

comment one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. one of the greatest innovators in the English language. In her works she experimented with stream-of-consciousness and the underlying psychological as well as emotional motives of characters.

英文名著时时刻刻的介绍

criticism Her work was criticised for epitomizing the narrow world of the upper-middle class English intelligentsia. be lacking in universality and depth, without the power to communicate anything of emotional or ethical relevance to the reader,

as an anti-Semite,

英文名著时时刻刻的介绍

Modern scholarship Recently, studies of Virginia Woolf have focused on feminist and lesbian themes in her work Woolf's fiction is also studied for its insight into shell shock, war, class, and modern British society