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The Victorian Age

The Victorian Age. It signs the triumph of capitalism and competition. It is collocated in the 19th century during Queen Victoria’s reign. People should learn something by art. Novel became very important: The third person omniscent narrator

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The Victorian Age

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  1. The Victorian Age It signs the triumph of capitalism and competition Itiscollocated in the 19th centuryduring Queen Victoria’s reign People should learn something by art • Novel became very important: • The third person omniscent narrator • The prevailing of the technique of telling • It shows what is wrong and what is right • It offers a moral • There is a chronological concept of time • It is very similar to reality Daniel Defoe wrote “Robinson Crouse” and Henry Fielding wrote “Tom Jones”

  2. Charles Darwin “The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection “ Men were not created by God. People could no longer believe in God because he doesn’t exist Friedrich Nietzsche “God is dead” Albert Einstein “General Theory of Relativity” Space and time do not exist as separate phenomena. Past and future exist together with the present in people’s mind Henri Bergson William James Carl Jung “The Psychology of the Unconscious” Sigmund Freud “The Interpretations of Dreams” The unconscious part of mind

  3. Modernism It rejected the old Victorian standards of art: art should not teach something It is the movement from which Postmodernism seems to emerge It is located during the first three decades of the 20th century • LITERATURE: • Plot is reduced to the minimum • The eciplice of narrator • The prevailing of the showing technique • The inner monologue • Focus the phycology • The shift of the point of view • Poetical language Itis more important HOW yousaysomething ratherthan WHAT yousay

  4. The major figuresofmodernismliterature Thomas Stearns Eliot Marcel Proust EtzaPound Franz Kafka Wallace Stevens Rainer Maria Mallarme

  5. Virginia Woolf • The adoptionof the interiormonologue • Plot isreducedto the minimum • There are bothsimultaneoustime and chronologicaltime • Omniscientthirdpersonnarrator • The shiftof the pointofview • Poeticallanguagewithpoeticaldevices Shelivedfrom 1882 to 1941 and isconsideredoneof the mostrelevantwritersofModernism. “MrsDalloway” 1925

  6. James Joyce • Streamofconsciousnesstechnique • First personnarrator • Simultaneoustime • No punctuation: formalaspectisrelevant in Modernism • Itisverysimilarto reality • The readershouldworks hard tounderstandeverything “Ulysses”: itissat in Dublin, in 16 June 1904. ItisconnectedtoHomer’s Odissea Nicolò Zentilin 5A 2010/2011

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