Genre
Postmodernism
Existentialism
Albert Camus: La Peste
Absurdism
Samuel Beckett: En attendant Godot
Magic Realism
Gabriel García Márquez：Cien años de soledad
New fiction school<br>
Claude Simon：La Route des Flandres
Black humour
Joseph Heller：Catch-22
Lost generation
Irwin Allen Ginsberg： Howling
Symbolism
T.S.Eliot: the wasteland (1922)
Ezra Pound: In a Station of the Metro
Expressionism
Eugene O'Neill：Beyond the Horizon
Stream of consciousness
James Joyce：Dubliners
Futurism
Gino Severini, 1912, Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin
Dadaism
an anti-art movement
Post-impressionism
Cubism
Background
Economy
After the first world war, there was a booming industry and material prosperity
The great depression(1929-1933)
Two world wars
Violence, Devastation(毁灭), Blood and Death
Cultural background
A list of philosophical theories <br>were widely spread in American.<br>
Marxism
Freud’analytical psychology
Stream of consciousness
Introduction
a cultural movement that generally includes the progressive art and architecture, <br>design, literature, music, dance, painting and other visual arts<br>
key elements are experimentation, anti-realism, <br>individualism and a stress on the cerebral rather than emotive aspects<br>
The work of Modernist writers is characterized <br>by showing the disenchantment, dislocation, <br>and alienation of men in the world, and <br>by the emphasis on experimentation<br> and formalism and objectivism <br>
Characteristics
It is characterized by discontinuous structure, fragmentary description and highly experimental language expression
It focuses on revealing the ugly side of human nature, expounds the non heroic nature of the characters and the disorder of the inner world
Accurate understanding and mature application of stream of consciousness
