文档介绍：The Age of Modernism
1918 – 1945
Social Characteristics of Modernism
The First World War greatly shook American’s traditional belief in freedom, democracy, especially God
People generally felt lost, and even desperate
There was a picture of universal spiritual “wasteland”
Characteristics of Writers
reflect on humans themselves
look at the American society and the American system from a critical point of view
try new literary forms and techniques in order to best illustrate the sense of fragments and “wasteland” of the time
A Clean Well-lighted Place
-- by Ernest Hemingwei
A Clean Well-lighted Place
Brief Introduction of the Author
Appreciation of the Writing
Brief Introduction of the Author
Ernest Hemingwei (1899 -- 1961)
a doctor’s family
high school; journalist
World War One; volunteer
recruited; ambulance driver
sent to the front
wounded; in Italy
shattering & nightmarish
his life & writings; affected
settled down in Paris; foreign reporter
shot himself
shocked
an era e to an end
representative; writers; Lost Generation
black & naturalistic view of the world
see life as “all a nothing”
battle; force; lose