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1、The1920s(1)Modernismageneraltermappliedretrospectivelytothewiderangeofexperimentalandavant-gardetrendsintheliterature(andotherarts)oftheearly20thcentury,includingSymbolism,Futurism,Expressionism,Imagism,Vorticism,Dada,andSurrealism,alongwiththeinnovationsofun
2、affiliatedwriters.Modernistliteratureischaracterizedchieflybyarejectionof19th-centurytraditions.Modernistwritersdisturbedtheirreadersbyadoptingcomplexanddifficultnewformsandstyles.Infiction,JamesJoyceandVirginiaWoolfattemptednewwaysoftracingtheflowofcharacter
3、s’thoughtsintheirstream-of一consciousnessstyle.Inpoetry,EzraPoundandT.S.Eliotreplacedthelogicalexpositionofthoughtswithcollagesoffragmentaryimagesandcomplexallusions.Modernistwritingispredominantlycosmopolitan,andoftenexpressesasenseofurbanculturaldislocation,
4、alongwithanawarenessofnewanthropologicalandpsychologicaltheories.Itsfavoredtechniquesofjuxtapositionandmultiplepointofviewchallengethereadertoreestablishacoherenceofmeaningfromfragmentaryforms.InEnglish,itsmajorlandmarksareJoyce’sUlyssesandEliot’sTheWasteLand
5、(both1922).The1920s(2)ImagismImagism:thedoctrineandpoeticpracticeofasmallbutinfluentialgroupofAmericanandBritishpoetscallingthemselvesimagistsbetween1912and1917.ImagistMovementisarevoltagainstthesentimentalandmanneristic(格式化的)poetryattheturnofthecentury.Ledat
6、firstbyEzraPound,andthebyAmyLowell,thegrouprejectedmost19th-centurypoetryascloudy(含糊的)verbiage(卩羅嗦),andaimedinsteadatanewclarityandexactnessintheshortlyricpoem.Theimagistscultivatedconcisionanddirectness,buildingtheirshortpoemsaroundsingleimages;theyalsoprefe
7、rredloosercadences(節(jié)奏)totraditionalregularrhythms.ApartfromPoundandLowell,thegroupalsoincludesH.D.,F.S.Flint,D.H.LawrenceandWilliamCarlosWilliams.Thethreephrases1908-1909.T.E.HulmefoundedaclubinLondonBasicprinciples;morediscussion,lesswriting1912-1914.EzraPou
8、nd1912,thethreeimagistpoeticprinciplescameout1914,thefirstanthologyofImagistpoems-—DesImagistes詩選1914-1917.AmyLowellNogreatachievementsThethreeImagistpoeticprinciples1.Directtreatmentofth
