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MODERN TIMES - Coggle Diagram
MODERN TIMES
Historical and social background
FIRST HALF OF 20th CENTURY
1901-1910
Queen Victoria's death
Edward VII
her son succeded
1906
Liberals gained the supremacy in the election and important
social reforms
foundations of the
Welfare State
1902
Education Act
system of secondary school
1908
Old Age Pensions Act
+ National Insurance Act
Foreign affairs
Britain associated herself with France in the so called
ENTENTE CORDIALE
1903
1911
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foundation of
Women's Social and Political Union
Cultural and literay background
Questioning all past beliefs
Nietzsche
= god was dead,loss of the morality + end of believe in a cosmic force ordering the universe
Freud
= psychonalaysis, childhood experiences and sex
Jung
religion and philosophy, archetypes, collective unconscious
Sir James Frazer
study of religions, myths, rituals and social forms of primitive peoples. Christianity and pagan religions a lot in common
The Golden Bough
Alber Enistein
theory of relativity revolution modern thought
William James
Stream of consciousness
= consciousness is a subjective, private, selective, intentional and constant flowing
Henri Bergson
time is presented to consciousness not as events in succession, but as
duration
= endlessly flowing process in qhich past, present and future overlap
MODERNISM
cosmopolitan movement involving
all forms of artistic expression
;
reaction
against 19th century traditional values
and conventional literary and artistic methods;
movement
from objectivity to subjectivity
+ interest in the
uncounscious
;
-using and reworking of
universal myths
narrative point of view shifted from the external narrator to the minds of the characters
, 3rd person narrator tended to disappear;
traditional plots disappeared
fragentation of time and space
in art : cubism, futurism, expressionism. But not in Britain
Poetry =
IMAGISM
rejection of sentimentalism and discursiveness;
directedness;
sharp language and free verse;
creation of new rythms;
VORTICISM
violence and energy in painting;
fragmentation of reality;
imagery derived from the machine and the urban environment;
dynamism