Modernism
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Modernism
Polidori Chiaracl. 5D
D. Bomberg
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What is Modernism?
• It is a cultural trend.• It is the movement in visual arts, music, literature
and drama which rejected the old Victorian standars of how art should be made and consumed.
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Period of Time
It developed in the first three decades of the 20th century.
Location
It developed in Europe, expecially in the Great Britain.
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Features
Poetry Fiction
Drama
Modernism
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Exponents
Drama
Poetry FictionModernism
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The End
Modernism was very important in Europe because it “founded” Postmodernist movement, which developed in the second half of the 20th century.
Wyndham Lewis
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Poetry
• T.S.Eliot• E.Pound• W.B.Yeats
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Fiction
• James Joyce• Virginia Woolf
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Thomas Stearns Eliot
He was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. He is considered the most important modernist exponent in poetry.
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Eliot’s Main Important Poems
• “The Love Song of J.A.Prufrock
• “The Waste Land”
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Ezra Pound
He was an American expatriate poet and critic. He was a major figure of Modernist movement, notably Imagism and Vorticism.
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William Butler Yeats
He was an Irish poet and dramatist. In 1923 he adwarded a Nobel prize in Literature. He was a very important Modernist poet.
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Features in Poetry
• Intertestuality• Objective Correlative• Mythical Method• Cosmopolitan nature• Space and Time’s references• Dramatic Monologue
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Features in Fiction
• The Stream of Consciousness• The Inner Monologue• The Shifting of the Point of View• The Third-Person Narrator Voice
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Features in Drama
• The social theatre of G.B.Shaw• The continuation of the traditional Comedy of
Manners• The importance of Irish drama production
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The Love Song of J.A.Prufrock
It is a dramatic monologue where the protagonist speaks with his consciousness about his inner problems.
Key Words
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Key Words
• Time: Prufrock has an unhappy relation with time. It creates confusion in his mind.
• Space: Prufrock is imprisoned in an opaque sphere, that is his consciousness.
• Epigraph: is the quotation of Dante’s Inferno. It closes and opens the discourse of a poet-hero.
• Objective Correlative:is a method used by Eliot in his poems. Here it is used to express the inability of men to act and the vulgarity of society.
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The Waste Land
It is the most important poem of T.S.Eliot. It is read as a representation of the disillusionment of the post-war generation. It is a long poem: it consists of 5 parts: “The Burial of the Dead”, “A Game of Chess”, “The Fire Sermon”, “Death by Water” and “What the Thunder Said”. Key Words
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Key Words
• Verbs: the use of present participle recalls the idea of continuity.
• Fragmentation: Eliot uses German words to create a relation between two cultures. Moreover he uses quotations by other poets.
• Mhytical Method: is important because it gives a meaning to the panorama of futility.
• Intertestuality: Eliot adopts references of Chaucer, Dante and Baudelaire.
• Pessimism: the situation of modern man in a city is the same nowadays.
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James Joyce
J.Joyce was an Irish expatriate writer. He is best known for his novel Ulysses and his famous collection of short stories, that
is Dubliners.
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Ulysses
The novel is the most important work of Joyce: it is a modern interpretation of the Odyssey.
The Stream of Consciousness
The Shifting of the Point of View
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Dubliners
It is a collection of short stories, written in 1914. It tells about people who are timid and conformist.
SettingTechniques
Narrator
The city of Dublin
The Stream of Consciousness
The third person narrator
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Virginia Woolf
She was a very important modernist english novelist. Her famous works include the novels “Mrs Dalloway” and “To the Lighthouse”.