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Modernism Magonara Luca Alvise

Modernism was a literary movement developed during 1900 and 1930 and reached its height with authors such as: T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Mikhail Bulgakov. What was it?

What was its historical background? Its historical background of Modernism was split in two notorious periods: at the end of "The long nineteenth century" and at the beginning of "The short twentieth century".

What was its historical background? The Great depression: it caused an enormous unemployment rate and loss of faith in liberal democracy. What was its historical background?

What was its historical background? Wars: First World War shocked a whole generation and confirmed the Victorian doubts and fears. Moreover changed completely the positivist idea of progress. What was its historical background?

What was its historical background? Darwinism: The human beings lost their central position in the universe and concepts such as “unconscious” influenced artistic currents (e.g. steam of conscious and Surrealism)‏

What were its literary features? Modernism was considered an emancipated movement, because it broke with Realistic and Romantic literature introducing new features such as: What were its literary features?

What were its literary features? Parody of mundane: a prime example being "The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufock" by T.S.Eliot. “In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo.”

What were its literary features? The absence of a heroic figure: there is a recognition that people are fraught with human frailties e.g. T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land.

What were its literary features? ..and much more: Disjointed timelines No omniscient narrator Eclipse of the narrator Shifting point of view No more framework of reference Flux of thought Elitarian movement Objective correlative Mythical method

Focusing on modernist form we can notice particular features: What about its form? Focusing on modernist form we can notice particular features: The plot is reduced to minimum (e.g. Joyce's “Ulysses”)‏ Individual side and subjectivity (e.g. Joyce's “Leopold Bloom”)‏ Internal monologue and personal search (e.g. Eliot's”Prufrock”)‏