World Literature IIRenaissance to the Present

Dr. Michael Broder

University of South Carolina

April 5, 2012

The Twentieth Century

Noël Coward“Twentieth-Century Blues” (1931)

Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

Originated the theory of biological evolution by

natural selection

Karl Marx (1818-1883)

Philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian,

journalist, and revolutionary socialist

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

Founder of psychoanalysis and the theory of the

unconscious mind

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Theory of general relativity, discovery of the law of the

photoelectric effect, pivotal in establishing quantum theory

Crystal Palace (1851)London

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Orestes Pursued by the Furies (1862)

Edgar Degas, At the Café-Concert: The Song of the

Dog (1875–1877)

Claude MonetHouses of Parliament,

Sunset (1902)

Henri MatisseWoman with a Hat (1905)

Pablo PicassoPortrait of Gertrude

Stein (1906)

Pablo PicassoLes Desmoiselles D’Avignon

(1907)

Frank Lloyd WrightRobie House, Chicago

(1910)

Swan Lake (1876)Music by Pyotr Ilyich

TchaikovskyChoreography by

Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov

Vaslav NijinskyAfternoon of a Faun

(1912)Music by Claude Debussy (1894)

Luigi RussoloMacchina Tipografica (1914)

Remington Standard 10 (1913)

Gertrude SteinTender Buttons [Chicken] (1914)

CHICKEN.Pheasant and chicken, chicken is a peculiar third.CHICKEN.Alas a dirty word, alas a dirty third alas a dirty third, alas a dirty bird.CHICKEN.Alas a doubt in case of more go to say what it is cress. What is it. Mean. Why. Potato. Loaves.CHICKEN.Stick stick call then, stick stick sticking, sticking with a chicken. Sticking in a extra succession, sticking in.

James Joyce, FromA Portrait of the Artist as a

Young Man (1914)Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo…

His father told him that story: his father looked at him through a glass: he had a hairy face.

He was baby tuckoo. The moocow came down the road where Betty Byrne lived: she sold lemon platt.

World War 1 (1914-1918)

Allied PowersIncluding England, France, Russia, Italy, and the United

StatesCentral Powers

Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and

Bulgaria

T.S. Eliot, FromThe Love Song of J. Alfred

Prufrock (1920)I grow old … I grow old …I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me.

I have seen them riding seaward on the wavesCombing the white hair of the waves blown backWhen the wind blows the water white and black.

We have lingered in the chambers of the seaBy sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brownTill human voices wake us, and we drown.

Henri MatisseOdalisque with Arms

Raised (1923)

Joan MiróThe Tilled Field (1923)

Wassily KandinskyTransverse Line (1923)

Walter GropiusBauhaus Building, Dessau

(1925)

Ezra PoundIn a Station of the Metro

(1926)The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.

Rudolf SteinerSecond Goetheanum, Basel

(1926)

“Twentieth Century Blues

”Performed by Marianne Faithfull in 1973

World Literature IIRenaissance to the Present

Dr. Michael Broder

University of South Carolina

April 4, 2012