在哪里英文英国文学史及作品选读教案 Lecture 14

2021年1月19日发(作者：vesting)
Lecture 14
The Modern Period (II)
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Teaching Content
Modernism; the Stream of Consciousness; James Joyce
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Time Allotment
2 periods
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Teaching Objectives and Requirements
1 Help the students know about modernism.

2
Help
the
students
know
the
characteristics
of
the
novels
of
the
Stream
of
Consciousness.
3 Help the students know clearly about James Joyce.
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Key Points and Difficult Points in Teaching
1Modernism
2 The Stream of Consciousness

3 James Joyce

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Teaching Methods and Means




Lecture; Discussion; Multi-media
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Teaching Process
1 Modernism

●

Modernism
is
a
general
term
applied
retrospectively
to
the
wide
range
of
experimental
and
avant-garde
trends
in
literature
of
the
early
20
th

century,
including
Symbolism,
Futurism,
Expressionism,
Imagism,
Vorticism,
Dada,
and
Surrealism, along with the innovations of the unaffiliated writers.

●

Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho- analysis as its
theoretical base. It is a reaction against realism. It rejects rationalism which is the
theoretical
base
of
realism;
it
excludes
from
its
major
concern
the
external,
objective,
material
world,
which
is
the
only
creative
source
of
realism;
by
advocating
a
free
experimentation
on
new
forms
and
new
techniques
in
literary
creation, it casts away almost all the traditional elements in literature such as story,
plot, character, chronological narration, etc., which are essential to realism. As a
result,
the
works
created
by
the
modernist
writers
can
often
be
labeled
as
anti- novel, anti-poetry or anti-drama.



(
See Chang Yaoxin, 380-381
)
2 The Stream of consciousness

●

The tradition of the stream of consciousness can be traced to various sources. The
earliest
attempt
to
concentrate
the
subject
matter
of
fiction
on
the
inner
consciousness
of
the
c
haracter
can
be
found
in
Laurence
Sterne’s
Tristram
Shandy
.

●
Stream
of Consciousness
is
a literary technique which was pioneered by Dorthy
Richardson,
Virginia
Woolf,
and
James
Joyce.
Stream
of
consciousness
is
characterized by a flow of thoughts and images, which may not always appear to
have a coherent structure or cohesion. The plot line may weave in and out of time
and place, carrying the reader through the life span of a character or further along
a
timeline
to
incorporate
the
lives
(and
thoughts)
of
characters
from
other
time
periods. It was represented by James Joyce (
Ulysses
), Virginia Woolf (
To the Light
house
,
The Waves
) and William Faulkner (
The Sound and Fury
).


●

Writers,
who
create
stream-of-consciousness
works
of
literature,
focus
on
the
emotional and psychological processes that are taking place in the minds of one or
more characters. Important character traits are revealed through an exploration of
what is going on in the mind.
3 James Joyce (1882-1941)
3.1 Life and achievements

●
James Joyce is an Irish novelist, noted for his experimental use of language in such
works
as
Ulysses

(1922)
and
Finnegans
Wake

(1939).
During
his
career
Joyce
suffered from rejections from publishers, suppression by censors, attacks by critics,
and
misunderstanding
by
readers.
From
1902
Joyce
led
a
nomadic
life,
which
perhaps reflected in his interest in the character of Odysseus. Although he spent
long times in Paris, Trieste, Rome, and Zü
rich, with only occasional brief visit to
Ireland, his native country remained basic to all his writings.

“But when the restraining influence of the school was at a distance I began to
hunger
again
for
wild
sensations,
for
the
escape
which
those
chronicles
of
disorder alone seemed to offer me. The mimic warfare of the evening became
at last as wearisome to me as the routine of school in the morning because I
wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected,
do not happen
to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.”

(From
Dubliners
)

●

Joyce’s life’s work was to write only and always about his hometown Dublin. He
treated it in such a way that in fact he was writing about all of human experience.
His works include
Dubliners
,
The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
,
Ulysses
,
and
Finnegans Wake
.
3.2 Comments on James Joyce
●

He was serious with both his thematic and technical concerns.

◆

In Thematic terms, he never forgot to promote spiritual freedom of his native
country with his writings. Irish nationalism features prominently in his work.
The theme of Irish discontentment and struggle for freedom always appear as
a clear narrative thread. Furthermore, he loves the common people. He finds
the great value in love and passion. He loves life itself and believes that love
makes
life
worth
living
and
makes
man
invincible.
Finally,
there
is
his
preoccupation with art and its mission in life. All of his major works related to
art and artist and their bearing on life.