b. Dubliners c.Ulysses d. Finnegans Wake
（3）significance of his works
a.He changed the old style of fictions and created a strange mode of art to show the chaos and crisis of consciousness of that period.
b. From him, stream of consciousness came to the highest point as a genre of modern literature.
c.In Finnegans Wake, this pursue of newness overrode the normalness and showed a tendency of vanity. 2. Virginia Woolf （1）life （2）works a.Mrs. Dalloway b. To the Lighthouse c.The Waves d. Orlando e.Flush f. The Years g.Between the Acts h.A Room of One's Own i. Three Guineas
j. Modern Fiction
k. The Common Reader （2 series） （3）point of view
a.She challenged the traditional way of writing and created her novels in a new way.
b. She thought the depiction of details darkened the characters.
c.She called the writers for writing about events of daily life that gave one deep impression. 3. influence
（1）The stream of consciousness presented by Joyce and Woolf marks a total break from the tradition of fiction and has promoted the development of modernism.
（2）However, at the same time, because of the newness in form but hard to understand, this kind of fiction cannot attract readers.
（3）The writers showed interest in the psychological depiction of the bourgeoisie but neglected the conflict that most people cared about at that time.
IV. David Herbert Lawrence 1. life 2. works
（1）Sons and Lovers （2）The Rainbow
（3）Women in Love （4）Lady Chatterlay's Lover 3. his influence
Section 3 Drama I. Overview
1. the development of science （light） and the revival of drama 2. social dramas
3. the renaissance of Irish dramas 4. the poetic drama 5. different schools of drama II.George Bernard Shaw 1. life 2. works
（1）Widower's Houses （2）Man and Superman （3）Major Barbara （4）Pygmalion （5）Heartbreak House （6）Mrs. Warren's Profession （7）The Apple Cart （8）Saint Joan 3. point of view
（1）Shaw was very much impressed by the Norwegian dramatist Ibsen.
（2）He opposed the idea of ―art for art's sake‖, maintaining that ―the theatre must turn from the drama of romance and sensuality to the drama of edification‖.
（3）He sought from the beginning to expose the hypocrisy, stupidity, and conventionality of the English way of life as he saw it with a rich wit and lively sense of comedy.
（4）His heroes and heroines are always unheroic, unromantic, common sense people, and he used them to convey ideas. 4. style
（1）Shaw is a critical realist writer. His plays bitterly criticize and attack English bourgeois society.
（2）His plays deal with contemporary social problems. He portrays his situations frankly and honestly, intending to shock his audiences with a new view of society.
（3）He is a humorist and manages to produce amusing and laughable situations.
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