回顾英国后现代主义文学的发展轨迹,我们看到英国文学因其强大的现实主义传统,其后现代主义试验性相对于美国和法国不那么强烈。英国后现代主义文学火花始于20世纪30年代末,但在40、50年代其后现代主义试验性却相对沉寂,要到60、70年代才成燎原之势。然而从70年代下半叶开始至90年代,英国后现代主义文学的试验性却开始下滑,倾向通俗化和兼收并蓄,同时出现“国际化”现象。 Recalling the development of British postmodernist literature, we see that British literature is less experimental than post-modernism in the United States and France because of its strong realist tradition. The postmodernist literary spark in Britain began in the late 1930s, but its experimental postmodernism was relatively quiet in the 1940s and 1950s. It was not until the 1960s and 1970s that a prairie fire started. However, from the second half of the 1970s to the 1990s, the postmodernist literature in the United Kingdom began to decline in its experimentation, tended to be popularized and eclectic, and at the same time the phenomenon of “internationalization ” appeared.