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1. Modernism(现代主义)
1）Modernism was a complex and diverse international movement in all creative arts, originating about the end of the 19th century.
2）rising out of skepticism and disillusionment of capitalism, which made writers and artists search for new ways to express their understanding of the world and the human nature. The French Symbolism, appearing in the late, 19th century, became the forerunner of modernism.
3）It provided the greatest renaissance of the 20th century.
4）It means a departure from the conventional criteria or established values of the Victorian age. It took the irrational philosophy and theory of psychoa/nalysis as its theoretical base.
5）Major themes: the distorted, alienated and ill relationships between man and nature, man and society, man and man, man and himself.
6) It was made up of many facets, such as symbolism, surrealism, stream of consciousness , expressionism, futurism, etc. Alienation and loneliness are the basic themes of modernism. Modernism also touched upon visual arts, music, dance and the other fields of social life.
7）The major figures that were associated with this movement were Kafka, Picasso, Pound, Eliot, Joyce and Virginia Woolf, etc.
of consciousness (意识流)
(1)is a term to describe the flow of thoughts of the waking mind.
(2)Now it is widely used to describe the