Scarica Comparing Aestheticism & Modernism: Dorian Gray, The Waste Land, Ulysses, Mrs. Dalloway e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! AESTHETICISM -Literary e cultural movement developed in the last decades of 19th century -artist as the "bohémien" who to protest against the monotony and vulgarity of bourgeois life, lives without moral rules, pursuing excess, sensation and cultivating art and beauty > LIFE AS A WORK OF ART -Art have nothing to do with didacticism, morality or politics > Art is an end on itself > ART FOR ART'S SAKE +DECADENCE -Movement closely related to Aestheticism -It is characterized by a lack of confidence in positivism * WILDE LIFE [1854-1900 -Irish writer, aesthete and dandy -great success and fame at first -decline: imprisoned for his homosexuality -died in poverty in France WORKS -The Canterville Ghost -The Picture of Dorian Gray -The Importance to Be Earnest THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY PLOT: Dorian Gray, the protagonist, gain an eternal youth > Under the influence of Lord Henry Wotton Dorian pursue a life of pleasure abandoning every moral code > corruption of his soul and the signs of age mysteriously appear on Dorian's portrait, painted by Basil Hallward > END: Dorian stabs the picture but, in doing so, he kills himself > picture returns to normal, instead Dorian corpse soon appear old and ugly FEATURES: -third person narrator -allegorical meaning > moral is that every excess must be punished and there is no escape from reality MODERNISM -International artistic and cultural movement developed in the first decades of 20th (post-war) -Modernists feel alienated from reality > they want break with the past and find a refuge in art -Main features are the emphasis on subjectivity, the importance of unconscious, breaking down with time and space limitations, reflect modern urban life in art +AVANT-GARDES like Symbolism, Dadaism, Surrealism and Futurism * ELIOT LIFE (1888-1965) -European culture -Poetry as a refuge from World War | and his unhappy home life > 1922 he published his masterpiece The Waste Land -conversion to Anglicanism > his works change a lot > purification, joy and hope THE WASTE LAND -Long poem divided in five sections -fragmented and disordered work > reflects the devastation of reality, destroyed by war and "modernity" -main theme: contrast between fertility of a mythical past and the spiritual sterility of the present world STYLE: Mythical method (myths underline sterility of modern man), impersonality, objective correlative technique (use of a specific combination of images, objects or descriptions to evoke a specific emotion in the reader) e JOYCE LIFE (1882-1904) -Hé considered himself an European writer -He traveled a lot (Trieste, Zurich and Paris) -He loved his homeland (Ireland) and always wrote about it STYLE: Impersonality, mythical method (Ulysses), use of direct speech, interior monologue and stream of consciousness WORKS -Dubliners -Ulysses DUBLINERS -composed by 15 short stories divided in four thematic sections (childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life) > the last one "The Dead" is the longer and his first masterpiece -characters are afflicted and spiritually weak people > unsatisfied of their condition they can't find the courage to break their chains > theme: paralysis and failure in finding a way out of paralysis -STYLE: mixture of realism and symbolism, epiphany (sudden spiritual manifestation caused by a banal situation) ULYSSES -Title recalls Homer's Odyssey and characters stand for this epic poem's characters > Leopold Bloom stands for Ulysses, Molly (wife) for Penelope, Stephan Dedalus (adopted son) for Telemachus -Aristotelian rules > unity of time (16th June 1904), action (funeral of Leopold's biological son) and place (Dublin) -exploration of human mind from the inside
