Western literary schools and representative works

Western literature in the 20th century grew in the spiritual soil of modern irrational cultural thoughts. It was brewed in the historical process of the development of European liberal capitalism in the19th century, and became popular at the end of19th century and the beginning of the 20th century after the western society entered monopoly capitalism. It is a refutation of the value system of modern western rationalism culture, and also a dissatisfaction and resistance to the whole modern capitalist civilization. It embodies modern people's deep thinking about their own value and destiny. 1. Realistic literature ① Representative figures of European and American realistic literature: Bernard Shaw, romain rolland, Hemingway ② Soviet Russian realistic literature sholokhov Gorky 2. Modernist Literature The main schools of modernist literature are ① the representatives of symbolism in the later period: thomas eliot (Britain) The Waste Land, Paul Valerie (France), ② Expressionism, Kafka (Austria), O 'Neill (America), ③ Futurism, Apollinaire (France), Mayakovski (Russia), ④ Surrealism, André Breton (France); Louis Aragon (France) ⑤ Stream of consciousness novel marcel proust (France) Virginia Woolf (England) william faulkner (USA)