西方文学作为人类文化进步的标志,在经历了几个世纪后,显示出自己的特征。我们可以将历史发展脉络来了解当代西方文学的基本走向与特征。我们可以将当代西方文学的走向分为两条线索,一条是由现代主义到后现代主义的西方文学,而另一 As a sign of the progress of human culture, Western literature has shown its own characteristics after several centuries. We can understand the basic trends and characteristics of contemporary Western literature from the context of historical development. We can divide the trend of contemporary Western literature into two clues: one from Western literature of modernism to the other from postmodernism