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MODERN AGE
THE AGE OF MODERNISM 1901–1945
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
END OF THE VICTORIAN AGE.
EDWARD VII BECOMES KING.
GROWTH OF THE LABOUR PARTY.
IRISH QUESTION.
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CHANGES.
WORLD WAR I
STARTED IN 1914.
FIRST “TOTAL WAR”.
MILLIONS OF DEATHS.
END OF VICTORIAN OPTIMISM.
ANTI-WAR FEELINGS GREW.
IRISH INDEPENDENCE
1918: IRISH REPUBLIC PROCLAIMED.
IRA FOUNDED.
IRISH FREE STATE CREATED.
ULSTER REMAINED IN THE UK.
WORLD WAR II
GLOBAL WAR.
HITLER’S EXPANSION.
MASSIVE BOMBINGS.
MANY CIVILIAN DEATHS.
THE HOLOCAUST
EXTERMINATION OF THE JEWS.
CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
MORE THAN SIX MILLION VICTIMS.
MODERNISM AND THE NOVEL
WHAT IS MODERNISM?
BREAK WITH THE VICTORIAN NOVEL.
AFTER WORLD WAR I.
INTEREST IN THE INDIVIDUAL.
EXPLORATION OF THE INNER MIND.
MAIN THEMES
LONELINESS.
MORAL UNCERTAINTY.
LOSS OF VALUES.
ALIENATION.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.
NEW FEATURES
NO OMNISCIENT NARRATOR.
INNER THOUGHTS.
NON-LINEAR PLOT.
FLASHBACKS.
SUBJECTIVE TIME.
“MOMENTS OF BEING”.
STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
WHAT IS IT?
REPRESENTS THE FLOW OF THOUGHTS.
THOUGHTS ARE FREE.
NO LOGICAL ORDER.
SHOWS THE INNER MIND.
WILLIAM JAMES
CREATED THE THEORY.
CONSCIOUSNESS FLOWS CONTINUOUSLY.
THOUGHTS ARE NEVER SEPARATE.
MAIN WRITERS
JAMES JOYCE.
VIRGINIA WOOLF.
THE INTERIOR MONOLOGUE
WHAT IS IT?
SHOWS THE CHARACTER’S THOUGHTS.
THE READER ENTERS THE CHARACTER’S MIND.
THE NARRATOR DISAPPEARS OR BECOMES LESS IMPORTANT.
DIRECT INTERIOR MONOLOGUE
FEATURES
NO NARRATOR.
THOUGHTS ARE PRESENTED DIRECTLY.
FREE ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS.
MORE DIFFICULT TO READ.
INDIRECT INTERIOR MONOLOGUE
FEATURES
THIRD-PERSON NARRATOR.
THOUGHTS MIX WITH NARRATION.
MORE DESCRIPTIONS.
EASIER TO UNDERSTAND.
WOOLF AND JOYCE
JAMES JOYCE
FOCUSES ON LANGUAGE.
EACH CHARACTER HAS A DIFFERENT STYLE OF THINKING.
MORE COMPLEX.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
MORE FLUID STYLE.
CONSCIOUSNESS CONNECTS PEOPLE.
MORE READABLE.