Scarica T.S. Eliot: A Modernist Poet and His Life's Work e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! T.S ELIOT LIFE American by birth Its cultur was English> believe British citizen He studied English Metaphisical poet [_» __ JONH DONNE and DANTE he married the dancer Vivienne + she was mental unstable for her Eliotdwill die in Switzerland -Eliot’s work: two periods The conversion to anglicanism: BEFORE AFTER pessimistic vision of the world - is characterized by without faith volves purification hope and joy ideas FRAGIMENTATION>reflects fragemented images that create suspension reflects a total collapse of Victorian certainties. Time for him : 1. PAST = positiv. The moment or the mith > NIETZCHE — La» ALIVE and FERTILE 2. PRESENT = negativ. It doesn't make sense, too complex (MEANINGLESS) — l» DEATH and STERILITY Eliot creates an epic of the present Superimposing the past on the present MYTICAL METHOD Attempt to interpret the present. Throught the myth I take the myth and bring it into the present BARD POET the one who brings things together RICH language “— L» Vuegas and elevated elements DS Takes words of all fields PORTRAIT of T.S. ELIOT otographes dis English CECIL BEATON Royal family photographes. e Black and white e Multiple faces because he speaks of a fragmented reality torn to pieces. LIFE: » Was born in PI perito past of Ireland INNER HOME LAND is his OMPHALOS » Educated of jesuit schools » Interest in European culture TRIESTE e Made friends with ITALO SVEVO >was born in Trieste e 1914 he writes è DUBLINERS = collection of short stories portraying life in Dublin ® inthis period begins to write > UL YSSES PARIS e publish Ulysses in 1922 has received both praise and sharp criticism STYLE e influenced by the French Symbolists T.S. ELIOT ® the artists task was render life objectively in order to give back to the readers a true image of it. Trough isolation and detachment of the artist from society. e Heuse of FREE DIRECT SPEECH “+. NO COLON NO INVERTED e INTERIOR MONOLOGUE L_ + The voice of the character breaks in the prose without the meditation of the mostrator e The prose is held with PUNS e The mostrator disappears — L»The prose takes me by ITSELF DUBLINERS3 4 groups - CHILDHOOD - ADOLESCENCE - MATURITY - PUBLIC LIFE DUBLINERS:+ 1° FIRST WORK 15 SHORT STORY SET DUBLIN SHOWS THE COMMON FAUTURES OF IRELAND PARALISIS ULYSSES >tells of a single day on June 16, 1904 in Dublin The novel traces the experiences of three characters associated with their mythical archetypes: e MrLeopold Bloom (Ulysses) e his wife Molly (Penelope) e the poet Stephen Dedalus (Telemachus)>taken from “A Portrait of the Artist” FEATURES o mithycal metod A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST * Protagonist Dedalus+ myth that had contributed to the Minotaur's labyrinth FEATURES Use FREE DIRECT SPEECH Next experimentation of the lenguage Repetition Musicality Onomatopoeia Childhood: baby talk the artist is a child and must make an effort to come out Tales intro once upon a timedbeginning of a fable, as if the narrator were talking to children \AA AAA FINNEGANS WAKE inspired by a drunken Irish song Extreme researchon lenguage INDIPENDENT EPHIFANY> moment when the truth is discovered With its variety of puns and new words VIRGINIA WOLF LIFE: > > > the dad was Victorian man of letters. she grew up in a literary and intellectual atmosphere She spent her summers Cornwall, and the sea remained central to her art as symbol. he became a member of the BLOOMSBURY GROUP, la contempt for traditional morality and Victorian respectability, rejection of artistic conventions and contempt for bourgeois sexual codes. she was founded on the revolutionary stream of consciousness prose style developed by Virginia Woolf. WORKS: In 1925 the novel Mrs Dalloway in which Virginia successfully experimented with new narrative techniques Orlando 1928, which was devoted to Vita Sackville- West A Room of One's Own a work of great impact on the feminist movement of the 60s and 70s. link between economic and artistic independence. NOVEL: was interested in giving voice inner world saw the human personality as a continuous shift of impressions and emotions. the events made up a story were no longer important for her; mattered was the impression they left on the characters, the omniscient narrator disappeared, the point of view shifted inside the different characters' minds through flashbacks MRS DOLLOWAY Uguaglianze e diversità con Joyce: Like Joyce's Ulysses Mrs Dalloway takes place on a single ordinary day in June. Unlike Joyce, however, Woolf does not elevate her characters to the level of myth
