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THE 20TH CENTURY NOVEL (A CULTURAL CRISIS (In the 20th century the…
THE 20TH CENTURY NOVEL
A CULTURAL CRISIS
Novelist has previously concentrated above all on 1. PLOT, 2. CHARACTERS IN SOCIETY.*
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In the 20th century the emphasis passed:
a) from SOCIETY to MAN HIMSELF,
b) from MAN IN HIS SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP to an ISOLATED ENTITY*
It was a period of ANXIETY , UNCERTAINTIES: truths accepted for century have been lost.
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A complex age like the 20th century upset by world wars and marked by unrest and ferment produced a complex ART.
MODERNIST NOVEL
1) Causes of the rise of the modernist novel
The rise of the modern novel was caused by the transformation of the British society from the comfortable world of the Victorian period to the inner-war years.
2) Factors contributing to the rise of the modernist novel
New factors contributed to the rise of the modern novel:
a) FREUD’s new theory of the psyche.
b) A new concept of TIME introduced by the two philosophers : the American William JAMES and the French Henry BERGSON.
BERGSON
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MODERNISM
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*Modernism is a complex movement which started after 1910 and flourished in the 1920s and 1930s and involved all forms of ART: LITERATURE, MUSIC, CINEMA, VISUAL ARTS
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In the first decade of the XX century some writers prepared the way for those novelists who really experimented with new forms and new techniques: the modern novelists, James JOYCE and Virginia WOOLF.
J. JOYCE
V. WOOLFE
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FREUD
W. JAMES
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