《英国文学》课程PPT教学课件（English Literature）Part IX 9 D. H. lawrence

Modern Novel & D.H. Lawrence

Modern Novel & D. H. Lawrence

Modern English novels The first three decades of 20th century were golden years of the modernist novel. In stimulating the technical innovations of novel creation,the theory of the Freudian and Jungian psycho-analysis played a particularly important role

Modern English novels ❖ The first three decades of 20th century were golden years of the modernist novel. ❖ In stimulating the technical innovations of novel creation, the theory of the Freudian and Jungian psycho-analysis played a particularly important role

the notion multiple levels of consciousness existed simultaneously in the human mind. one's present was the sum of his past, present and future. the whole truth about human beings existed in the unique,isolated,and private world of each individual

the notion ❖ multiple levels of consciousness existed simultaneously in the human mind. ❖ one’s present was the sum of his past, present and future. ❖ the whole truth about human beings existed in the unique, isolated, and private world of each individual

writers concentrated all their efforts on digging into the human consciousness Dorothy Richardson James Joyce Virginia Woolf

❖ writers concentrated all their efforts on digging into the human consciousness Dorothy Richardson James Joyce Virginia Woolf

They had created unprecedented stream-of- consciousness novels such as Pilgrimage by Richardson Ulysses(1922)by Joyce Mrs.Dalloway (1925)by Woolf

❖ They had created unprecedented stream-of￾consciousness novels such as Pilgrimage by Richardson Ulysses (1922) by Joyce Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Woolf

One of the remarkable features of their writings was their continuous experimentation on new and sophisticated techniques in novel writing,which made tremendous impacts on the creation of both realistic and modernist novels in this century

❖ One of the remarkable features of their writings was their continuous experimentation on new and sophisticated techniques in novel writing, which made tremendous impacts on the creation of both realistic and modernist novels in this century

Major modernists James Joyce E.M.Forster D.H.Lawrence DEITY V.Woolf MODERNISTS

Major modernists ❖ James Joyce ❖ E. M. Forster ❖ D. H. Lawrence ❖ V. Woolf

James Joyce the most outstanding stream-of- consciousness novelist in Ulysses,his encyclopedia-like masterpiece, Joyce presents a fantastic picture of the disjointed,illogical,illusory,and mental- emotional life of Leopold Bloom,who becomes the symbol of everyman in the post- World-War-I Europe

James Joyce ❖ the most outstanding stream-of￾consciousness novelist ❖ in Ulysses, his encyclopedia-like masterpiece, Joyce presents a fantastic picture of the disjointed, illogical, illusory, and mental￾emotional life of Leopold Bloom, who becomes the symbol of everyman in the post￾World-War-I Europe

E.M.Forster In the works of E.M.Forster and D.H. Lawrence,old traditions are still there but their subject matter about human relationships and their symbolic or psychological presentations of the novel are entirely modern

E. M. Forster ❖ In the works of E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence, old traditions are still there ❖ but their subject matter about human relationships and their symbolic or psychological presentations of the novel are entirely modern

Forster's masterpiece,A Passage to India (1924),is a novel of decidedly symbolist aspirations,in which the author set up, within a realistic story,a fable of moral significance that implies a highly mystical, symbolic view of life,death,human relationship,and the relationship of man with the infinite universe

❖ Forster's masterpiece, A Passage to India (1924), is a novel of decidedly symbolist aspirations, in which the author set up, within a realistic story, a fable of moral significance that implies a highly mystical, symbolic view of life, death, human relationship, and the relationship of man with the infinite universe