It's also going to be the process of watching an artistic form

其意义还在于目睹一种艺术形式
unfold over a very exciting period of time.

在历史的激流中逐渐发展的过程
In the second half of the twentieth century

在二十世纪下半叶
and up now into the twenty-first century,

一直到现在的二十一世纪
writers were thinking very hard about what to do stylistically with all the

作家们专注于思考如何从艺术上
innovations that come in that powerful period known as modernism.

重现现代主义浪潮中所涌现的新生事物
So one of the things we're going to think about together in the course

所以我们在本课程中
is what happens to all those innovations.

也会去体验这股浪潮中所发生的一切
Are they abandoned?

他们是被放弃
Are they embellished?

被夸张
Are they stretched?

被吹嘘
Are they rejected?

还是被抵触