Modernism literary background - libro 'Amazing minds', Schemi e mappe concettuali di Inglese

Scarica Modernism literary background - libro 'Amazing minds' e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! LITERARY BACKGROUND Modernism ⚙ Included different artistic movements: - Futurism > rebellion against past - Cubism > fragmentation of the subject - Expressionism > radical sperimentazione - Surrealism > importance of the world of the unconscious. Common features: - Fragmentation of the point of view - Subjective time and place - Rejection of traditional punctuation - Experimental techniques - Free verse Writers - Stream of consciousness - Influenced by historical events Precursors of modernism - Conrad, Lawrence, Henry James - Point of view of one character - Disconnected images Modern writers - William James as influential personality, he said that consciousnesses appears as a flow. - Joyce and Woolf > direct and indirect interior monologue. - Express instability of 20th century. - Plots become less important and stories could have open endings. Direct interior monologue Joyce, thoughts of the character not filtered, 1st person point of view, no punctuation. Indirect interior monologue Woolf, 3rd person omniscient narrator, gravar punctuation. Colonial and dystopian novelists - Reaction against Modernism > realism and documentarism. - Realism > Foster, Orwell and Huxley. - Themes experimentations - Themes like colonial issues. - Dystopian novel > representation of degraded societies in which humanity is oppressed. American novel - Modernism > Faulkner - Sense of disillusion > Hemingway and Fitzgerald Political speech - 20th century = Golden Age of political speech. - Churchill wrote some of the most famous political speeches. - Two war > fundamental role in the development of political oratory. - Tool to maintain peace or declare war. - Use of the radio to expand the number of listeners. Imagism - Poetical movement - Inspiration from Symbolism Elements: - Use of common words - Free metrical form - Concreteness - Dry style Poetic production 1930s - Auden > one of the best voices, Oxford Poet, use of symbolic but not obscure language, experimentation. - MacNeice > Oxford Poet, combines humor and tragedy, talks about temporary issues. - Dylan Thomas > 'New Romanticism', themes like love, death and freedom. American poetry Masters and Frost > important American poets, strongly linked to mother country. Non-British Drama - No British dramatist emerged before 1950s, only exception was Eliot. - Better in US and Ireland - Introducing the idea of theatre as an instrument of social criticism Irish revival - William Yeats - Inspiration from Irish folklore - Poetic symbolism