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Romanticism - Modernism - Postmodernism - Coggle Diagram
Romanticism - Modernism - Postmodernism
Romantic
intense emotion as source of experience
apprehension, horror, terror, awe
sublimity + beauty of nature
folk art + ancient custom noble
spontaneity, freedom
revived medievalism to escape population growth, early urban sprawl + industrialism
buildings pretending to be medieval, garden revival - escape from factories
Modernism
experimentation
subjectivity - psychological depth + complexity
narratives usually in first person or are interested in subjectivity of characters
stream of consciousness
multiple narrative layers, not linear structure
irony, satire
early modernism 1908-1914 - productive for writers
London turned into exciting capital like Paris + Berlin
impact of WWs, growing industrialisation + globalization
fragmentation - cubism
alienation
detachment, isolation, powerlessness
questions about Humanity
isolation - paralysis
epiphany - Joyce
WW1, industrial society, capitalism - reacting to
subjectivity, irony
depth of thoughts and people
reflection of industrial capitalism
Postmodernism
human psychology are completely socially determined.
Pastiche
Personal, intimate vs historical and political issues
the public with the private
Intersects:
Intertextuality
Unreliable narration
Metafiction and Self-reflexivity
Time (and space) compression
Fragmentation, paradox
Fractured (or circular?) structure
reaction against the intellectual assumptions and values of the modern period in the history of Western philosophy
Flexible Structure
A circular narrative that ends roughly where it begins and goes back in time
Emphasis on inner monologue?
Attention to the inner life of characters (as well as their surroundings)
Emphasis on individualism
Experimentation with forms and content, symbolism
Critique of modernity
WW2
pop culture - different response to capitalism - irony
deconstructing ideas and end of big narratives - religion, communism, socialism
post-colonial
consumer culture - critique, how individuals become commodified
metafictional
commodification, celebrities
surfaces - how we have become objects - sold as an object
lack depth - danger of becoming objects and consumption - how woman becomes an advert
reflection of consumption
both have different perspectives - no big narratives, deconstructing what is already there