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THE MODERN NOVEL - Coggle Diagram

- - - - the trauma of World War I
      - the disillusionment with modern myths such as progress, science and technology
      - the novelists' lack of faith in traditional values
      - writers began to conceive of time as a continuous flux in which only individual consciousness identifies significant moments
  - - - his most important novels:Dubliners (1914) and Ulysses
        
        in the second novel, Joyce uses the epic model to stress the lack of heroism, of ideals, of love and trust in the modern world
    - - In Modern Fiction (1919)
        
        she said that human perception depends not on measurable time (“time of the clock") but on the way the mind is affected by it (“time of the mind")
      - Mrs Dalloway (1925)
      - To the Lighthouse (1927)
        
        in this novel the intuitive female consciousness of the protagonist is contrasted with the vigorously male consciousness of her husband.
- - - - time-shifts
      - the presentation of different points of view, or with new, subtler ways of portraying human psychology.
      - flashbacks
    - - Heart of Darkness (1902)
        
        he best expression of his use of an exotic setting and an adventure plot
        
        this novel probes civilization, and is also a criticism of European colonialism in Africa
    - - the first novelist to feel the full impact of new sciences such as our concept of psychoanalysis and psychology
        
        the most important novel:Sons and Lovers (1913)
        
        is both the psychological description of an oedipal complex and realistic portrait of life in provincial northern England
- - - - this novel describes a future world in which a tyrannical power, headed by the dictator Big Brother, controls man's actions and thoughts through telescreens and microphones present in every room and street