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MODERNISM - Coggle Diagram
MODERNISM
FEATURES OF MODERNISM
- Reflect the complexity of the modern world in artistic form
- The impossibility to give a final or absolute interpretation of reality
- The importance of the unconscious
- The intentional distortion of shapes (abstract painting, Windham Lewis’Vorticism, Italian Futurism)
- The breaking down of limitations in space and time
- The subjective perception of reality: our perception of reality is subjective, temporary and subject to change
- The intensity of the isolated “moment” or “image” to provide a true insightnto the nature of things (Joyce’s epiphanies, Woolf’s “moments of beings”)
- An interest in the primitive and the magical (Fauvism)
MODERNIST LITERATURE
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- main themes: isolation, alienation and incommunicability
- creation of a subjective mythology, symbolic system
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- interest in man and the psyche.
Recurring themes
- isolation, alienation and lack of communication (man is a prisoner of his of consciousness)
- subjective time (no well-structured plot, story set in a single day, mix of present, past and future)
- stream of consciousness technique (to report/ record the character’s thoughts) epiphany, moments of being
- no didactic aim - the impersonality of the artist