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Modernist poetry, fiction and theatre - Coggle Diagram

- - - - chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion
        
        find objects/situations that correlate to the emotions
        
        these evoke emotions for the reader
  - - - fusion of aspects from different contents/kinds of texts
      - Intercultural puzzle, "known and the unknown"
    - - he wants concreteness, particularity, clarity and precision and sincerity
    - - after the War he has been caught by American troops and brought to the U.S. to be trialed for treason
        
        returned to Italy and stayed there for the rest of his life
    - - natural language, not artificial language
      - free verse, not dictated by rhyme patterns, but a likeness to every day natural language
    - - leading representatives and practicioners
      - associative process
      - one single image
        
        Pound: "An Image is that presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.""
        
        is to evoke one epiphanic moment, one association
        
        poetics of the moment
        
        not about long explanations, but one quick moment when you see something, quick notion, quick idea
      - Epiphany
      - Also leaders of imagism
        
        Amy Lowell, Marianne Moore. Carl Sandburg etc.
      - Pound: "In a Station of the Metro" (1913/1916)
        
        "The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough."
        
        direct treatment of the thing, the absolute economy of the words
        
        The poem is really just an image, no explanation
        
        Not language that is highly patterned, but language that you can just read through.
        
        regular, everyday language, focus on association and reader oriented conception of image and poetry
- - - - not
        considered part of the avantgarde, experimental and revolutionary modernist movement
      - he was influenced and reacted to modernism, but his style wasn't as revolutionary and "new" as others
      - regarded by some as the representative of a counter movement to modernism
    - - Rural (and urban), nature
      - local color
      - homemade
      - concrete images/the everyday/direct treatment
      - Language
        
        narrative
        
        realistic, neo-romantic, classical <> modern
      - classical style in terms of form and rhythm but the language remains simple like in modernist language
      - Frost sees his poetry as realist, But in his own kind of moders sense and specific way
        
        aims at getting to the truth, to the essence of life and existence
        
        makes him vulnerable to the criticism of modernists and other cultural critics
        
        almost near romantic attempts
        
        At the same time Frosts reaction to Modernity
        
        fears and musings
        
        his reaction to the experience of the time
- - - - The Sun Also Rises (1926)
      - A Farewell to Arms (1929)
      - For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
      - The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
      - In Our Time (1925)
      - "A clean, well-lighted place" (1926/33)
        
        he lets the dialog speak for itself
        
        the despair of a whole generation, about everything and nothing in particular
        
        Things are upsidedown (after War and before WWII)
        
        insomnia
        
        "it's probably only insomnia. Many must have it. "
    - - He knew what this woundedness meant
      - tip: collect biographical information on Wikipedia on the author
      - Hemingway responds with a hero (the so called Hemimgway code Hero) that represents grace under pressure
        
        stoic, almost emotion free acceptance of the hardship of life
        
        nevertheless disillusioned, detached, anti-sentimental, ironic
        
        hedonism, drinking, sex, traveling and other "tabus"
        
        hard-boiled style
        
        simple
        
        some feel it is cold-hearted
        
        free of decorations and adornment
        
        The text is not really simple, it is just simple at the surface, but underneath the surface there are the gaps and the blanks (7/8)
        
        precision
        
        precisely describe objects, actions etc.
        
        doesn't directly describe emotions, the actions, objects, environment is meant to express the emotions
        
        iceberg theory
        
        theory of omission
        
        The reader has to fill in the blanks and gaps in the text, especially regarding emotions
        
        it is the plot, action and facts that evoke the emotions
        
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    - - a metaphor for the inward and psychic condition
        
        de-contextualized very often
        
        the feeling that the setting is not a particular reference, but a highly symbolic setting for the emotions that are hidden
- - - - has there ever been a real, true, positive American Dream?
- - - - Defender of the American system
  - - - Dos Passos wants to represent different perspectives collected into a collected American perspective
  - - - paradigmatic example
        
        USA-Trilogy
        
        technique of rapid cuts and a juxtaposition of different scenes and text-types
        
        first person narration + stream of consciousness + snippets from the media/reports/public discourse + portraits of historical figures/biographies
        
        "Capitalism and rags to riches has failed"
        
        "The roaring 20s were anything but golden"
        
        1919
        
        The big money