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Topic Discussion：Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English​Define modernism in English literature. Name two major modernistic British writers and list one major work by each.
【正确答案】：

A. MODERNISM ROSE OUT OF SKEPTICISM AND DISILLUSION OF CAPITALISM.
B. THE FRENCH SYMBOLISM APPEARING IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY, HERALDED MODERNISM. AFTER WWI, ALL KINDS OF LITERARY TRENDS OF MODERNISM APPEARED: EXPRESSIONISM, SURREALISM, FUTURISM, ETC.
C. MODERNISM TAKES, THE IRRATIONAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE THEORY OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS AS ITS THEORETICAL BASE.
D. MODERNISM IS, IN MANY ASPECTS, A REACTION AGAINST REALISM.
E. JAMES JOYCE:ULYSSESS; T. S. ELIOT: THE WASTE LAND. 

【题目解析】：

现代主义起源于对资本主义的怀疑和幻灭。第一次世界大战后，现代主义的各种文学思潮应运而生：有表现主义、超现实主义、未来主义等。现代主义以非理性哲学和精神分析理论为理论基础，在许多方面是对现实主义的一种反应。