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Exploring Modernism: Culture Shift in the Modern Age

Modernism emerged as a global cultural trend during 1900-1930, rejecting Victorian paradigms and redefining humanity's place in a changing world. This period was marked by a crisis in values, leading to a shift in perspectives and artistic expressions. Influenced by major scientific and philosophical advancements, modernism challenged traditional beliefs and emphasized innovation, individuality, and aestheticism.

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Exploring Modernism: Culture Shift in the Modern Age

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  1. MODERNISM AND MODERN AGE (1900-1930)

  2. What is modernism? • It is a global trend in culture • It affected the intellectual elité (the only one who had the possibility to appreciate it in that very time) • It rejected the paradigms of Victorian Age • It searches a new place for the man in the world

  3. Why Modernism? • At the end of nineteenth century there was a global crisis of values: disruption of positivism • Neither God, nor the individual consciousness could longer give meaning to man • Traditional values were crumbled out by the revolutionary discoveries of that period: Romantic codes were no longer valid, they were too naives

  4. Frame of Modernism • Modernism would have been the response of culture to: • Darwin theory of evolution • II Industrial revolution and mass society • Einstein’s relativity • Bergson’s theories on time • Freud and Jung’s psychological studies • Nietzsche: God is dead

  5. How the scenery changed Man has no longer a divine reason to inhabit the world Man is alone in a mechanical world Shift of the point of view in physics and in the whole culture: man at the centre in an universe without centre Crisis in liberal democracy, capitalism, and sciences after First World War No valid points of references and philosophical systems Human reason: Unconsciousness, stream of consciousness and racial memory What does it remains?

  6. Everyone gives its response • No universal valid theories: only innovation, individual search for order and impersonality were common features • According to Aestheticism art was the response for art • Symbolists and Imagist adopted a dry and hard style to adhere to reality, and symbols become the way to summarize meaning

  7. Features • Order • Importance of form, content is useless • Retaken of Enlightenment rationality against Romantic sentimentalism • Elite referred: difficult style • Eclipse of narrator and reader’s importance in giving meaning • Myth and anthropology: The Golden Bough, From Ritual to Romance • Neo dramatic novel

  8. Main figures in Modernism • T.S. Eliot: poetry, Objective correlative and quotations in the global framework of myth and anthropology (The Wasteland) • E. Pound (also Imagist) • W.B. Yeats • J. Joyce: fiction, epiphany, interior monologue in the global framework of myth and anthropology (Ulysses) • V. Woolf: novel, moment of being, form (Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse)

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