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Modernism

Modernism. Magonara Luca Alvise. a literary movement developed during 1900 and 1930 reached its height with authors like: T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Mikhail Bulgakov. What was it?.

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Modernism

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  1. Modernism Magonara Luca Alvise

  2. a literary movement developed during 1900 and 1930 reached its height with authors like: T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Mikhail Bulgakov. What was it?

  3. split in two notorious periods at the end of "The long nineteenth century" and at the beginning of "The short twentieth century". What was its historical background?

  4. The Great Depression  enormous unemployment rate loss of faith in liberal democracy. What was its historical background?

  5. Wars World War I shocked a whole generation confirmed the Victorian doubts and fears. changed the positivist idea of progress completely What was its historical background?

  6. Darwinism  Human beings lost their central position in the universe Concepts such as “unconscious” influenced artistic currents (e.g. stream of consciousness and Surrealism)‏ What was its historical background?

  7. Modernism  an emancipated movement broke with Realistic and Romantic literature introduced new features such as: What were its literary features?

  8. Parody of the mundane The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufock by T.S.Eliot. “In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo.” What were its literary features?

  9. Absence of heroic figures: there is a recognition that people are fraught with human frailties ( e.g. T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land) What were its literary features?

  10. ..and much more: Disjointed timelines No omniscient narrator Eclipse of the narrator Shift of the point of view No more framework of reference Flux of thought Elitarian movement The Objective correlative the Mythical method What were its literary features?

  11. Particular features Plot reduced to minimum (e.g. Joyce's “Ulysses”)‏ Individual side and subjectivity (e.g. Joyce's “Leopold Bloom”) Internal monologue and personal search (e.g. Eliot's”Prufrock”)‏ What about its form?

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