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THE TWENTIETH CENTURY PERIOD (Bloomsbury Group (gr of intellectuals,…
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY PERIOD
Modernism
: explain mankind's place in the modern world, where religion, social stability, and ethnic are called into question.
"a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order"
Sigmund Freud
: psychological works
Sir James Frazer
(anthropological wrt):
The Golden Bough
Logopoeia
≠ layers + levels of vocab are mixed in a text
Bloomsbury Group
(gr of intellectuals, critics, and artists)
Lytton Strachey
John Maynard Keynes
(the biographer)
Roger Fry
(the economist)
Their artworks mainly show
: wit + intelligence + uncommon
frankness
abt
sexual behavior, homosexual, bisexual, adulterous, incestuous
Introduces
Post-Impressionism + a new formalist criticism
Drama
Great achievement w
unorthodox views of society + art
Modern plays
: rooms for social, psychological, religious
debate
T.S Eliot's 3 plays in VERSE
(copy the form of the ancient
Greece's + Rome's
plays)
Murder in the Cathedral
The Family Reunion
The Cocktail Party
Poetry
Georgian Poetry
(series of 5 volumes published bt
1912 & 1922
Imagism
: short, sharp glimpses, which
contrast
w the
Romantic + Victorian verse
The modern movement
(poetic diction -> new poetic lang)
rejecting
romantic + rhetoric + clever obscure lang
in favor of
plainess + clarity + modest irony
Prose
The Emperialist trend
supporting the idea of
expansion of imperialism
Rudyard Kippling
H.G. Wells
The Progress Realistic trend
contrast
bt
the working class
&
the upper class
Bernard Shaw
Joeseph Conard
Arnold Bennet
William Somerset Maugham
The Decadent trend
The Stream of Conciousness technique
(reveals the char: feelings, thought, actions in an
associative > logical sequences, w.o commentary
)
James Joyce
Virginia Woof
D.H. Lawrence
T.S. Eliot
*The Socialist Realistic trend
Supporting the idea of
violent revolution
to
change social order
Sean O'Casey
Christospher Caudwell
Ralph Fox
Authors
George Bernald Shaw
Arm and the Man
Pymalion
My Fair Lady
Man and Superman
Caesar and Cleopatra
T.S.Eliot
The Waste Land
The Criterion
Four Quartets
Cats (musical)
James Joyce
(William Butler Yeast)
Ulysses
Short story collection of Dubliners
The portrait of the artist as the young man
FInnergans Wake