文档介绍：Literature of the 20th Century
The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded annually throughout the century, the first laureate (1901) being Sully Prudhomme.
Agatha Christie
The best-selling works of the 20th century are
estimated to be
Quotations from Chairman Mao (1966, 900 million copies),
Harry Potter and the Philosopher‘s Stone (1997, 120 million copies),
And Then There Were None (无人生还/孤岛奇案/十个印第安小孩) 1939, 115 million copies)
The Lord of the Rings (1954/55, 100 million copies)
十个印地安小男孩,为了吃饭去奔走;噎死一个没法救,十个只剩九。
九个印地安小男孩,深夜不寐真困乏;倒头一睡睡死啦,九个只剩八。
八个印地安小男孩,德文城里去猎奇;丢下一个命归西,八个只剩七。
七个印地安小男孩,伐树砍枝不顺手;斧劈两半一命休,七个只剩六。
六个印地安小男孩,玩弄蜂房惹蜂怒;飞来一蜇命呜呼,六个只剩五。
五个印地安小男孩,惹事生非打官司;官司缠身直到死,五个只剩四。
四个印地安小男孩,结伙出海遭大难;鱼吞一个血斑斑,四个只剩三。
三个印地安小男孩,动物园里遭祸殃;狗熊突然从天降,三个只剩两。
两个印地安小男孩,太阳底下长叹息;晒死烤死悲戚戚,两个只剩一。
一个印地安小男孩,归去来兮只一人;悬梁自尽了此生,一个也不剩。
One of the twentieth century’s defining features is
“Modernist Experiment”
radical artistic experiment
Among the leading aesthetic innovators of this era were
poser Igor Stravinsky
斯特拉文斯基(俄国作曲家)
the cubist Pablo Picasso, 毕加索(西)
the futurist F. T. ti, 马里内蒂(意)
Red Stone Dancer, 1913-14 (bronze), Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri (1891-1915). Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge, UK / Bridgeman Art Library
Elasticity, 1916 (oil on canvas), ioni, Umberto (1882-1916). Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy Bridgeman Art Library.
I. Modern Period
II. Modernism
I. Modern Period
Theories and Modernism
’s: the second American Literary Renaissance