文档介绍：The Lost Generation
The Lost Generation
Ж The history of this period
Ж The influence of this period
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Ж Lost Generation is a literature school original in American in the twentieth century.
Ж Lost Generation refers to the generation after the World War I. Meanwhile, it also refers to the young writers who lived as expatriates in Western Europe for a short time.
The Lost Generation
Ж They went to the war because they believed in that this war would save the international democracy and this is a glorious war, a war of justice. But soon they were disillusioned by the cruelty of the war and the break-down of the American dream, and even more disappointed by the unwilling acceptance of the post-war society. They became doubted about the old values while at the same time they still could not accept the new standard of values and morality.
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Ж The Lost Generation was a group of rebellious youth appeared in America after the First World War. The 1920s was an age of Prohibition. Alcoholic beverages were outlawed by a constitutional amendment. However, young people cheerfully evaded the law in thousands of “speakeasies”(illegal bars). They played jazz, took drugs and bravely denunciated the Puritan morality and the social convention. At the same time, a lot of works appeared to reflect these young men’s depression and sad emotion. They seemed to lose their directions for the future.
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Ж Seeking the bohemian(放荡不羁的) lifestyle and rejecting the values of American materialism, they fled to France in the post World War I years. Full of youthful idealism, these individuals sought the meaning of life, drank excessively, had love affairs and created some of the finest American literature to date.
The Lost Generation
Ж而“迷惘的一代”作家就担当了新文化的冲锋手的角色。其社会影响远远超出文学范畴,在文学和文化领域都触发了革命性的轰动,影响了青年一代的思想和行为方式。《太阳照常升起》发表后,“青年男子试着像小说中的男主角那样沉着冷静地喝醉酒,大家闺秀则像小说中的女主角那样伤心欲绝地一个接一个地谈情说爱,他们都象海明威的人物那样讲话”。
Ж“迷惘的一代”文学在风靡美国的同时,带动起文艺百家和大众生活方