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 modemism. After WWI, all kinds of literary trends of modernism appeared: expreasionismn, surrealism. futurism, etc.
C.Modernism makes the irrational philosophy and the theory psycho-analysis as its theoretical base.
D.Modernism is, in many aspects, a reaction against realism.
E.Jame Joyce: Ulysses; T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land.