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Peter Faulkner. Modernism. Dissociation from 19°-century assumptions Community of attitudes, a shared sense of reality between writer and reader Realism: “the art of copying from nature” The Victorian writer’s direct address to the reader Consensus.
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Peter Faulkner Modernism
Dissociation from 19°-century assumptions • Community of attitudes, a shared sense of reality between writer and reader • Realism: “the art of copying from nature” • The Victorian writer’s direct address to the reader • Consensus
Literature and religion, ethical orientation, a lack of force and range (sexual relationships) (p. 4) • Aestheticism: “a multiplied consciousness”; lying as the proper aim of art. • ‘Social’ drama and the challenge to prevailing attitudes (Bernard Shaw, Plays Unpleasant, 1898)
The reception of Hardy’s Jude the Obscure (1896) • Henry James’s ‘The Art of Fiction’ (p. 6) • “A novel is a living thing” • Emphasis on the variety of personal responses, the subjectivity of each individual observer. • What’s the unifying perspective?
The Golden Bowl (1907): the first part represents the perspective of one character, the second part the perspective of another.