Symbolism and Imagist Poetry
The pioneer of symbolism. Representatives of early symbolism and their main propositions. The main works and literary viewpoints of the late symbolism representatives. Literary view and creative method of symbolism. The ideological content of The Waste Land.
The basic characteristics of imagism and the works of major writers. What is an image?
futurism
Major futurist writers in Italy, Russia and France. The basic proposition of Italian orthodox futurism.
expressionism
Overview of development. Works of major writers. Ideological characteristics, literary viewpoints and main artistic techniques.
Kafka's main works, the ideological and artistic characteristics of Kafka's creation.
stream-of-consciousness novel
What is stream of consciousness? Theoretical basis of stream-of-consciousness novels. Spatial time and psychological time. Creative characteristics of stream-of-consciousness novels. Works of major writers. The bloodline of York Napa.
superrealism
The main ideas and creative methods of surrealism. Subconscious writing. Works of major writers.
Existentialist literature
The basic viewpoint of existentialism philosophy. The development of existentialist literature, the works of major writers, and the ideological and artistic characteristics.
New novel school
Works of major writers. Literary view and creative method.
Absurd drama
How to understand absurdity? Overview of development. Ideological and artistic features. Works of representative writers. The ideological content of Waiting for Godot.
black humor
Black humor. Works of major writers. Ideological and artistic features. The ideological content of Catch-22.
Magic Realism
The influence of Spanish traditional literature, western modernist literature, Indian folk culture and ancient myths and legends of the East and the West on the formation of magical realism literature. The formation process, main writers' works and artistic characteristics of magical realism literature. The ideological and artistic features of One Hundred Years of Solitude.
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Symbolism is the earliest and most influential literary school in the western modernist literary movement, which is divided into two periods. Early symbolism was very popular in France in the second half of the19th century. After the First World War, late symbolism came into being, and in the 1920s, late symbolism reached its climax.
2. Symbolism has distinct characteristics: creating morbid "beauty"; Express the inner "highest truth"; Use symbolic hints; Construct images in hallucinations; Use musicality to increase the effect of meditation. It develops the artistic characteristics of early symbolism, opposes superficial lyricism and straightforward preaching, advocates the unity of emotion and reason, and expresses the beauty and infinity of the ideal world through symbolic suggestion, image metaphor, free association and musicality of language.
3. Representative writers: Valery, Rilke, Pound, Ye Zhi and T? 6? 1S？ 6? 1 Eliot.