angry young men名词解释

The

angry young men

British

playwrights

and

novelists

who

became

prominent

in

the

1950s.

The

group's leading members included John Osborne and Kingsley Amis

.

They

showed an equally uninhibited disdain for the drabness of the postwar welfare state,

and their writings frequently expressed raw anger and frustration as the postwar

reforms failed to meet exalted aspirations for genuine change.

tragedy, a serious play (or, by extension, a novel) representing the

disastrous downfall of a central character, the protagonist

.

The most

painfully tragic plays

,

display a disproportion in scale between the

protagonist's

initial

error

and

the

overwhelming

destruction

with

which

it is punished.

The tragic effect usually depends on our awareness of

admirable qualities

—

manifest or potential

—

in the protagonist, which

are

wasted

terribly

in

the

fated

disaster.

Some

tragic

novels,

like

Thomas

Hardy's

The Mayor of Casterbridge

and Malcolm Lowry's

Under the Volcano

1.

Tragi- comedy

is

a

literary

genre

that

blends

aspects

of

both

tragic

and

comic

forms. Most often seen in

dramatic literature

, the term

can

variously

describe

either

a

tragic

play

which

contains

enough

comic

elements

to

lighten

the

overall

mood

or,

often,

a

serious

play

with a happy ending

Stream

of

consciousness

is

a

narrative

device

used

in

literature

depict

the

multitudinous

thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind. Another phrase for it is 'interior monologue'.

[1]

The

term

of

Consciousness

was coined

by

philosopher

and

psychologist

William

James in

The Principles of Psychology.

Stream-of-consciousness writing is usually regarded as a

special form of interior monologue and is characterized by associative leaps in thought and lack of

punctuation. it is primarily a fictional device.

The

Bloomsbury

Group

—

or

Bloomsbury

Set

—

was

an

enormously

influential

group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and

artists,

[1]

the

best

known

members

of

which

included Virginia

Woolf,

John

Maynard

Keynes

and

E.

M.

Forster.

They

lived,

worked

or

studied

together

near

Bloomsbury,

London,

during

the

first

half

of

the

20th

century

.

Their

works

and

outlook

deeply

influenced

literature,

criticism,

and

economics

[3]

as

well

as

modern

attitudes

towards feminism,

pacifism,

and

sexuality.

James

Augusta

Aloysius

Joyce

was

an

Irish

novelist

and

poet,

considered

to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant- garde

of the early 20th century.

2)

Joyce was born to a middle class family in