Modernism in Literature: A Age of Anxiety and Uncertainty, Appunti di Inglese

Scarica Modernism in Literature: A Age of Anxiety and Uncertainty e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! THE AGE OF ANXIETY LITERARY BACKGROUND: The literature and the arts of the early 20th century marked by the birth of “MODERNISM”. Included and was influenced by different artistic movements: • Futurism decomposed the subject to create a sense of dynamism; • Cubism fragmented the subject into geometrical and abstract shapes; • Expressionism distorted forms and experimentation in the use of Colours to convey an idea of anxiety; • Surrealism gave importance to the world of unconscious. United in their attempt to rebel against the past and create new forms and styles in visual arts, literature and music. Common features: • Multi-layered and complex narration; • Time and place represented as subjective; • Use of experimental narrative techniques that aim to render the flux of thoughts; • Unorthodox forms of expression; • Use of free verse; • Use of complex vocabulary and concepts. BRITAIN: T.S. Eliot Virginia Woolf their main works came to light between 1922 and James Joyce 1925 and represent the unconscious Heterogeneous group of intellectuals who reflected on their capacity to represent the self and the world many used the “Stream of Consciousness” Other writers active in the 1930s were deeply influenced by the historical events of these years W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas THE PRECURSORS OF MODERNISM: In prose: