Modernism

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Modernism
D. Bomberg

• Polidori Chiara
• cl. 5D

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What is Modernism?

• It is a cultural trend.
• It is the movement in visual arts, music,
  literature and drama which rejected the old
  Victorian standars of how art should be made and
  consumed.

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Period of Time

• It developed in the first three decades of the
  20th century.

Location
It developed in Europe, expecially in the Great
Britain.
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Features
Poetry
Fiction
Modernism
Drama
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Exponents
Poetry
Fiction
Modernism
Drama
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The End

• Modernism was very important in Europe because it
  founded Postmodernist movement, which developed
  in the second half of the 20th century.

Wyndham Lewis
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Poetry

• T.S.Eliot
• E.Pound
• W.B.Yeats

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Fiction

• James Joyce
• Virginia Woolf

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Thomas Stearns Eliot

• He was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He
  received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
  He is considered the most important modernist
  exponent in poetry.

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Eliots Main Important Poems

• The Love Song of J.A.Prufrock
• The Waste Land

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Ezra Pound

• He was an American expatriate poet and critic. He
  was a major figure of Modernist movement, notably
  Imagism and Vorticism.

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William Butler Yeats

• He was an Irish poet and dramatist. In 1923 he
  adwarded a Nobel prize in Literature. He was a
  very important Modernist poet.

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Features in Poetry

• Intertestuality
• Objective Correlative
• Mythical Method
• Cosmopolitan nature
• Space and Times references
• Dramatic Monologue

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Features in Fiction

• The Stream of Consciousness
• The Inner Monologue
• The Shifting of the Point of View
• The Third-Person Narrator Voice

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Features in Drama

• The social theatre of G.B.Shaw
• The continuation of the traditional Comedy of
  Manners
• The importance of Irish drama production

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The Love Song of J.A.Prufrock

• It is a dramatic monologue where the protagonist
  speaks with his consciousness about his inner
  problems.

Key Words
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Key Words

• Time Prufrock has an unhappy relation with time.
  It creates confusion in his mind.
• Space Prufrock is imprisoned in an opaque
  sphere, that is his consciousness.
• Epigraph is the quotation of Dantes Inferno. It
  closes and opens the discourse of a poet-hero.
• Objective Correlativeis a method used by Eliot
  in his poems. Here it is used to express the
  inability of men to act and the vulgarity of
  society.

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The Waste Land

• It is the most important poem of T.S.Eliot. It is
  read as a representation of the disillusionment
  of the post-war generation. It is a long poem it
  consists of 5 parts The Burial of the Dead, A
  Game of Chess, The Fire Sermon, Death by
  Water and What the Thunder Said.

Key Words
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Key Words

• Verbs the use of present participle recalls the
  idea of continuity.
• Fragmentation Eliot uses German words to create
  a relation between two cultures. Moreover he uses
  quotations by other poets.
• Mhytical Method is important because it gives a
  meaning to the panorama of futility.
• Intertestuality Eliot adopts references of
  Chaucer, Dante and Baudelaire.
• Pessimism the situation of modern man in a city
  is the same nowadays.

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James Joyce
J.Joyce was an Irish expatriate writer. He is
best known for his novel Ulysses and his famous
collection of short stories, that is Dubliners.
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Ulysses

• The novel is the most important work of Joyce it
  is a modern interpretation of the Odyssey.

The Stream of Consciousness
The Shifting of the Point of View
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Dubliners

• It is a collection of short stories, written in
  1914. It tells about people who are timid and
  conformist.

Setting
Narrator
Techniques
The third person narrator
The city of Dublin
The Stream of Consciousness
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Virginia Woolf

• She was a very important modernist english
  novelist. Her famous works include the novels
  Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse.