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MODERNISM
CONRAD, THE PRECURSOR OF MODERNISM
his stories of maritime, colonialist adventure present philosophical depth in their reflections on truth and falsehood
Often represent a single human being confronted with the need to make important decisions after traditional value are collapsed
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HEART OF DARKNESS
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The light of European civilisation hides the darkness of corruption and the death of any moral value
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writers like James and Conrad started to undermine the idea that the self is a stable and fixed entity, Freud deeply influenced early 20th century authors
WAR POETS
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they wrote poems in which the war is described as a terrible experience leading to death, suffering and alienation
Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen are the most important war poets
Brooke
His early poetic writings were characterised by the tendency to represent an idyllic view of the English countryside
1914 & Other Poems: this collection of poems express an idealistic and enthusiastic praise of war, idealized as a puryfing experience for people and nation
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Sassoon
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his war poems used explicit and simple language, but with a perfect control of meter and rhyme
He used poetry to denounce the truths about war to a readership whose opinions and perceptions were shaped by pro-war propaganda
Owen
He started his war poems like Brooke, but his experience was different and Owen confrontation with the cruel reality of war was shattering
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His stylistic choices include traditional poetic forms like sonnets but he experimented with original patterns
JAMES JOYCE
He was a cosmopolitan author, he travelled in Zurigo, Trieste and Paris
Relationship between Joyce and Dublin is ambiguous, because he can't stand Ireland and Dublin, but he sets all his novels in Dublin
Dubliners: 15 short stories written before 1905 but published in 1914 because some scenes are considered immoral
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Realism: specific references to sheets, people and places of Dublin
Paralysis: physical ormental state where you can't move, impossibility of the characters to find a way out
Epiphany: an ordinary situation suddenly flashes out with meaning and makes the person who is having the revelation understand his condition
Ulysses: it's a modern odissey, set in Dublin in one single day, 16 june 1904 and divided in 3 part
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PART III: Leopold back home to his wife Molly, ends with a spectacular Molly's monologue nearly 1600 lines of free-flowing stream of consciousness prose
PART II: focus on the urban wonderings of Leopold Bloom, a middle-aged jewish
a general term referring to the cosmopolitan literary and artistic movements that violenty reacted Victorian Age and rebelled against the past
Futurism, Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism
Modernist feature
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Use of experimental narrative techniques, like unorthodox forms of expressions, use of free verse and a complex vocabulary
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