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Modernism Carrettiero - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The existence of accepted values led to the presentation of a social pattern that was familiar territory to both reader and writer
  - - - solid values of the past
      - Confused present
        
        The individual as regarded as a limited creature
  - - - Rejected omniscent narrator
      - Experimented new methods
        to portray individual consciousness
      - Shifted the wiewpoint from the
        external to the internal world
  - - - It was not necessarily the passing of time that revealed the truth about charachters
  - - - Interior monologue
        
        Characterised by the frequent lack of the chronological order
        
        The narrator may be present
        
        Formal logical order may be lost
        
        The action takes place within the character's mind
        
        Speech may be immediate
- - - - Edward Thomas
  - - - Rupert Brooke
      - Wilfred Owen
      - Siegfried Sassoon
  - - - Charles Baudelaire
      - Indirect rather than direct statement
      - The importance given to the sound of words
      - The use of free verse
      - The possibility for the readers to attribute their own meaning to poem
  - - - Dylan Thomas
- - - - Was born in 1882
      - Gained a degree in 1902
      - His identity was european
        
        Contrast with Yeats who was trying to
        rediscover the Irish Celtic identity
      - His mother dead
        
        And he returned from his first travel in Europe, in Paris
      - In 1904 he falls in love
        
        with Nora Barnacle
        
        Had two children
    - - Difficult years
        
        financial problems
      - Publish his first book "Dubliners"
        
        Not a huge commercial succes
        
        Caught the attention of Ezra Pound that help him print
        
        "A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
    - - Had established Joyce as a writer
        
        in 1917 he received a donation for continue to write "Ulysses"
    - - in 1922 he published "Ulysses"
        
        Period of success but
        
        His daughter Lucia started to suffer of mental illness
        
        she was sent to a mental hospital
        
        his increasing blindness
        
        He continued to write
        
        The "Finnegans Wake"
        
        his father's death
    - - following an intestinal operation
        
        He died in 1941
  - - - Disclose human situation and moments of intensity
      - Joyce was hostile to city life in contrast with the Victorian writers
      - settle in Dublin
    - - From lower-middle class
    - - External details generally have a deeper meaning
      - For express the symbolism Joyce employed a technique called "epiphany"
        
        The sudden spiritual manifestation caused by a trivial gesture
        
        that reveals the character's inner truths
    - - Interior monologue
      - Chiasmus
      - Change of the narrator
        
        For the first 3 there is a first person narrator
        
        For the last 12 stories there is a third person narrator
- - - - In the territory of Poland
    - - Conrad was brought by an uncle
    - - He started to go to sea
        
        On French and England ships
        
        His career as a Master Mariner
        
        Put Conrad in contact with men from a different social class and background from his own
        
        In 1890 Conrad went to Congo
        
        Journey recorded in "The Congo Diary"
    - - Conrad abandon the sea and devote himself to writing
  - - - Many novels are told by the same narrator
      - Use of several points of view
      - Time shifts
  - - - Marlow and the passengers of the Nellie are going to Congo
        
        They organised a expedition for reach Kurtz and bring him back in the society
        
        Marlow met Kurtz and succeeded in taking him on board
        
        But Kurtz died whispering "The horro! The horror!"
      - Setting
        
        At the end of the 19 century
        
        In the Congo Region
      - Characters
        
        Kurtz
        
        Progressive and liberal
        
        Was received by the black natives as if he was a god
        
        He went beyond the limits
        
        Marlow
        
        did not trasgress his limits
        
        Feels he had lived incompleteley
    - - Marlow is the narrator
      - Psychological realism
      - Continuous shifts backwards and forwards
    - - Considering the heir of Joseph Conrad
        
        They describe the plague of colonial values
        
        Both spend a part of life in Africa
    - - Indictment of the brutal exercise of law on the natives
      - All is death
- - - - in India
    - - By his mother
      - was educated at Eton
    - - For serve the Indian Imperial Police
    - - Learn the life in poverty
    - - Decide to publish his works under the
        pseudonym of George Orwell
        
        George: because it had an Englishness about it
        
        Orwell: it was the name of a river
    - - he married Eileen O'Shaughnessy
        
        Whit her Orwell went to Spain
        
        They adopted a children
        
        Eilen died in 1945
      - Orwell wrote a report called "The Road to Wigan Pier"
    - - Where he write:
        
        Animal Farm in 1945
        
        Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1949
      - Died in 1950
  - - - The novel describes a future world
        
        Divided into 3 blocks
        
        Ruled by Party
        
        That control people's lives
        
        A group is trying to overthrow the Party
        
        The group fails
        
        And the main character Winston remains alone in his fight
        
        The dictator is called "Big Brother"
        
        Watching doesn't mean taking care but controlling memory
    - - 1984 is a satire on hierarchical societies
      - Individuality can't be destroyed if man has someone to trust
- - - - Artists regarded as the past as a source wich they could reshape in a original way
        
        Eliot in "The Waste Land"
        
        From buddhist sources to Metaphysical
        poets or even Dante
        
        James Joyce's use of the
        stream of consciousness
        
        Derives from the process of dissolution of the novel that Sterne had started in 18th century
      - The artistic forms of Modernism share common features
        
        Intentional distortion of shapes
        
        Disruption of the linear flow of narrative
        
        Use of allusive language
        
        The intensity of moment
        
        The importance of unconscious
        
        The need to reflect the complexity of modern life