A playwriter
The play boy of the Western World Riders to the Sea Sean O'Casey:
The Shadow of a Gunman Juno and Paycock
The Plough and the Stars
Chapter 6 George Bernard Shaw乔治?伯纳?萧1856~1950
(英国杰出的批判现实主义剧作家）critical realistic dramatist ⑴ Plays
① Plays Unpleasant
Chapter 7 Some poets of Early 20th century
A group of war poets who wrote old-fashioned patriotism Rupert brooke John Masefield
Alfred Edward housman
Chapter 8 modernism in poetry Imagism:
An Anglo-American poetic movement flourishing in the 1910s. An imagist is that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time. So the imagist poetry is a kind of shaking off the convwntional metres and emhasizing on the use of common speech, new rhythms and clear images. William Butler Yeats威廉?勃特勒?叶茨1865~1939
（爱尔兰诗人，剧作家； The Irish nationalist movement 爱尔兰独立运动； The Irish Literary Revival 爱尔兰文艺复兴；
The Irish Literary Theater, or the Abbey Theater 爱尔兰民族剧团） ⑴ collections
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Chapter 9 the psychological fiction
Modernist fiction emphasis on the description of the characters' psychological activities, so sometomes been called modern psychological fixtion. Novelists
① James Joyce
② David Herbert Lawrence ③ Virgirnia Woolf
1. David Herbert Lawrence戴维?赫伯特?劳伦斯1885~1930 ①
【Paul Morel】depends heavily on his mother’s love and help to make sense of the world around him. He struggle to free from his mother’s influence, but he failed. After his mother has died and he is left alone, in despair.
Theme:
Lawrence was one of the first novelists to introduce themes of psychology into his works. He believed that the healthy way of the individual’s psychological development lay in the primacy of the life implulse, or in another term, the sexual impulse.huaman sexuality was, to Lawrence, a symbol of life force.by presenting the psychological experience of indivudual human life and of human relationships, Lawrence has opened up a wide new territory to the novel
Oedipus Complex is a thematic feature of D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers
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James Joyce詹姆斯?乔伊斯1882~1941
（爱尔兰小说家，意识流小说的代表人物）stream-of-consciousness
（意识流小说的代表人物）stream-of-consciousness ① Novels
Chapter 10 Robert Tressell: a working-class novelist
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Chapter 11 Maexist literay criticism
Ralph Fox:
The Novel and the People:
1 It presents a distorted and falsified picture of life. It opposes the principles of hunmanism.
2 the book is inspired by a profound love for the traditions of materialism and realism in English literature.
3 it regards the history of English literature Christopher Caudwell: Illusion and Reality
Studies in a Dying Culture
Part 9 poets and novelists who wrote both before and after the WWII
Chapter 1 social and historical background
the international tension grew more and more acute. WWII1939-1945
Chapter 2 W·H·Auden
During the 1930s,the most active English poets were the \Group\They saw the spread of depression in England and the rise of fascism in Europe. Wystan Hugh Auden: he is a left-wing poet
Chapter 3 Dylan Thomas
He has been called the last romantic poets or the new romantic poet of 20th century.
Dylan Marlaris Thomas
Chapter 4 Hugh MacDiarmid
His principle of poetic creation: originating from the life, but rising higher than life.
Chapter 5 E M Forster
Novelist, critic, essayist
These four were written to be \ masterpiece
Chapter 6 Evelyn Waugh
Novelist
Chapter 7 Grahan Greene
30 novels
Chapter 8 Aldous Huxley
Chapter 9 George Orwell
Left-wing intellectual
Novelist, essayist, journalist
Chapter 10 William Golding
Novelist
Chapter 11 Doris Lessing
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