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MODERN AGE 1902-1945 - Coggle Diagram
MODERN AGE 1902-1945
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Modernisms: allusive language, distortion of shapes, reflecting the complexity of modern life
the poet becomes the explorer of experience who uses an allusie and complex tone and language that are not menat to be read superficially
- Georgian poets 2. war poets --> dealt with horrors of war, hard and violent languages and words, free rhythm, no moral comment
prose: stream of consciouseness, interior monologue (flow of thoughts without a logical meaning)
psychological novels, (character's mind) modernist novel (subjective narrative, WOOLF, JOYCE), social and political novel (dystopic and anti-totalitarism, ORWELL)
JAMES JOYCE
he traveled throught Europe, spent a lot of time in Paris and then moved with his wife to Trieste (ITALO SVEVO). After the war, he moved to Zurich where he died.
all his works are set in ireland, impersonality (LIKE VERGA)
DUBLINERS
realistic description of Dublin, was considered obscene. 15 short stories. EPIPHANY: sudden spiritual revelation (the dead and evelyn) because of a sound, image... linguistic register matches the character' background.single pov for every strory
VIRGINIA WOOLF
homeschooled, gets in touch with the Bloomsbury group (gets the name from a neighbourhood in london), she has many mental problems and anxiety.
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GEORGE ORWELL
Eric Blair born in India but studied in England, he had the opportunity to see his country from the outside anf see its downsides and problems
his writing showed the true reality, a writer should be indipendent,sense of tolerance and justice, critc to totalitarisms
ANIMAL FARM
short narrative set in a farm where the animals that are oppressed revolt together, ruled by the pigs. their life is built around the seven commandements that revolve around equality and brotherhood but then the pigs became curropt.
"ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THEN OTHERS"
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