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MODERNISM ERA IN LITERATURE - Coggle Diagram
MODERNISM ERA IN LITERATURE
SELECTED WORK DURING MODERNISM ERA
INTERPRETATION OF THE SELECTED WORK
Stanza 1
Describes some of the things that the speaker has done that “You have not dreamed of.” He has spun and “soared and swung” through the sky and been within the “sunlight silence.”
Speaker begins by celebrating the feeling of flight. He describes slipping free of the “surly bonds of earth.” He’s left behind the heavyweight of day-to-day life.
High Flight - Pilot Officer John G Magee (1941)
STANZA 2
The poem turns inward, expressing the spiritual nature of this experience and how impactful it was for the speaker.
Leaving everyday life behind and entering into a new realm, one that is closer to Heaven than earth.
CHARACTERISTISC OF MODERNISM ERA
INDIVIDUALISM
Individualism may be regarded as the second important feature of modernism.
Individualism include religious, political and society.
It is clear that modern thoughts were the outcome of the renaissance and reformation.
SYMBOLISM
A literary movement that originated in France in the late 19th century. It was against the descriptive precision and objectivity of Realism and the scientific determinism of Naturalism.
the Absolute Truth can only be described through symbols and metaphors.
is used while referring to objects, settings and actions.
Works of symbolism
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
The Waste Land - T.S Eliot
In the poem, water is used to symbolize birth, death and resurrection.
Drought symbolizes death.
The fragmented nature of the poem itself is a symbol to show how fragmented the world has become.
The game of chess symbolizes the artificial relationship between human beings.
has plenty of symbols.
Finnegan’s Wake - James Joyce
Sailing to Byzantium - W.B Yeats
The Sound and The Fury - William Faulkner
The Waste Land - T.S Eliot
was first used by Jean Moreas in Le Figuro in 1886.
FORMALISM
Refers to critical approaches that analyze, interpret or evaluate the inherent features of a text. Describe the critical position that the most important aspect of a work of art is its form.
has advantage of forcing writers to evaluate to a work on its own terms rather to rely on "accepted" notion of writer work.
Focus on form, organization, structure, word choice and multiple language.
reduces the importance of a text's historical, biographical and cultural context.
MAJOR WRITERS AND THEIR SELECTED WORKS
VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882 - 1941)
An English author who explored the inner lives of her characters. Her famous books are "Mrs. Dalloway," "To the Lighthouse," and "Orlando." She experimented with narrative techniques and often focused on women's experiences and emotions.
T.S ELIOT (1888 - 1965)
An American-British poet known for his influential poem "The Waste Land." He wrote about despair and disillusionment after World War I, and his poetry often had obscure and complex themes.
W.B YEATS (1865 -1939)
An Irish poet known for his mystical and symbolic poetry. He was a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival and his works explored themes of myth, history, and spirituality.
JAMES JOYCE (1882 - 1941)
An Irish writer known for innovative storytelling. His main works include "Ulysses" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." He used a unique writing style called stream-of-consciousness, which shows characters' thoughts as they happen, making his stories complex and challenging.
WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897 - 1962)
An American author known for his complex and experimental storytelling. "The Sound and the Fury" and "As I Lay Dying" are among his famous novels. He used multiple narrators and nonlinear plots to reveal the complexities of human nature and family relationships.
TRIVIA & FUN FACTS
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The modernism era was a time of significant artistic collaborations with writers working with virtual artists, musicians and filmmakers.
The modernism era is known for its rejection of traditional storytelling, with writers experimenting with innovative narrative styles and techniques.
Many modernist writers were influenced by their experiences in World War 1, which had a profound impact on their perspectives and writing styles.
GENERAL OVERVIEW OF MODERNISM ERA
LIFESTYLE
Technology achievements - innovations have accelerated the pace of life and able to expand their scope of daily activities. (Combustion engines, automobiles, electricity)
A new form of architecture - Simplicity of the geometric shapes used, unadorned facades - International Style by using steel frames and curtain walls in building elements.
Music - Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky and Anton Webern approaches to tonality in their music, 12 - tone of the octave are serialized technique by Schoenberg.
TRENDS
Modernism is a philosophical, religious, and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, and social organization which reflected the newly emerging industrial world, including features such as urbanization, architecture, new technologies, and war.
Modernist innovations included abstract art, the stream-of-consciousness novel, montage cinema, atonal and twelve-tone music, divisionist painting and modern architecture.
FASHION
At the beginning of the twentieth century, modernism saw a close connection between fashion and art. Art was approached differently, not just as a painting but also as other creations including fashion and textiles.
This change in view point started to develop in the 19th century where revolutions and wars were prominent, the industrial revolution also began the age of modernity through to the twentieth century.
Modernism represents a change in perspective of culture within society, in order to look at subjects with a modern viewpoint.
DEFINITION
An era of breaking with the past and searching for new forms of expression at the same time.
Modernism era from the late 19th to the mid 20th century after World War I.
Known as rebirth of culture and growing alienation from optimism and convention by industrialization, capitalism and social change.
HISTORY
Modernism is used to describe the style and ideas of a work of art that was produced during this era. Modernism was called at first, and the term remained to describe movements which identify themselves as attempting to overthrow some aspect of tradition or the status quo.
The growing movement in art paralleled such developments as Einstein's Theory of Relativity in physics; the increasing integration of the internal combustion engine and industrialization, and the increased role of the social sciences in public policy.
Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are thought to be the mother and father of the movement because they had the most direct influence on early Modernists. Some time after their deaths, the Imagist poets began to gain importance
MODERNISM IN LITERATURE
Modernist literature - Disillusionment and fragmentation.
T.S. Elliot's - The Waste Land (1922). A poem of renewal and redemption in an empty and sterile landscape. The poem also has full of fragmentary images and obscure allusions.
Modernnism literature can be as a sense of disillusionment and loss pervades much American Modernist fiction. may be directed toward American society or toward civilization generally.
M0DERNISM POETS'
Poet - Alice Dunbar Nelson
Poet - Langston Hughes
Poet - Claude McKay
Poet - Countee Cullen
In 1922, Irish writer James Joyce’s Ulysses was featured in the development of Modernist literature - stream of consciousness, is one day in the life of three Dubliners. In this novel, the author ignores an orderly sentence structure and incorporates fragments to capture the flow of characters’ mental processes.
Novel as a model for social change - Powerful mode of social change and can help shape the future.
It aims to educate readers, change their perspectives, society and be more aware of injustice in their community.
