During the 20th century, folklore and folk speech had a great influence on elite literature—on writers as different as Franz Kafka and Carl Sandburg, Selma Lagerlöf and Kawabata Yasunari, Martin Buber and Isaac Bashevis Singer. Folk song has always been popular with bohemian intellectuals, ...
EnglishDramainthe20thCentury ProletarianLiteratureinthe20thCentury Ⅰ.GeneralViewofEnglishLiteratureinthe20thCentury HistoryBackground LiteraryCharacteristics HistoryBackground ForBritain,itwasatimeofdeclininginnationalfortuneandpower.Duringthe19thcentury,inordertopayforthewars,Britainhadtogiveupmanyofitsinvestments...
American literature in the 20th. century Americanliteratureinthe20th.century,historicalbackground The20th.centurybeganwithastrongsenseofsocialbreakdown.AseriesofwarsfoughtontheinternationalsceneduringthefirstpartofthecenturyweretoaffectthelifeoftheAmericansandtheirliterarywritings.Amongthem,thetwoworldwars,...
English_literature_in_20th_century__20世纪英国文学 Chapter 8 English Literature in the 20th Century Ⅰ. General View of English Literature in the 20th Century History Background For Britain ,it was a time of declining in national fortune and power. During the 19th century, in order to pay ...
In the end of the 19th century and early 20th century, under the influence of the liberation of the human being and the personality in the west, Japanese women took to the stage of history, beginning with their pens singing the joys and sorrows of joy. Women writers such as Higuchi Ichiyo...
20th Century American Literature20世纪美国文学 PartV.Twentieth-CenturyLiterature 1920s,JazzAge.I.HistoricalBackground:WWI,peace-makingperiod/boomtime.Politically,USenteredWWIin1917forpurityanddemocracy.Theperiodofpeace-makingendedwithgeneraldisillusionmentaboutthevalueofwar:onlyasenseofthefailureof...
Annie John in their very first article have attempted a brief survey of the British Literature during the 20th century focusing on the term 'Modernism' and its characteristic features. Modernism in literature marks the departure of traditional values and a break with history or institutions. Dr. ...
Americanliteratureinthe20th. century,historicalbackground The20 th .centurybeganwithastrongsenseof socialbreakdown.Aseriesofwarsfoughtonthe internationalsceneduringthefirstpartofthe centuryweretoaffectthelifeoftheAmericans andtheirliterarywritings.Amongthem,thetwo worldwars,especiallytheFirstWorldWar(1914- 1918)...
He used his birthplace as the setting of his novels and gave the nameWessex, which suggest the mysterious past ofEnglandduring the Anglo-Saxson period. TheWessexKingdomwas a prospered under king Alfred famous for the prehistoricalStonehenge. The place is rich in its legend and customs 威塞克斯小...
General View of English Literature in the 20th 2、Century,History Background,Literary Characteristics,History Background,For Britain ,it was a time of declining in national fortune and power. During the 19th century, in order to pay for the wars,Britain had to give up many of its ...