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MODERNISM by Gianluca Serpi

modernism Time: Modernism describes a series of reforming cultural movements in art and architecture, music, literature and the applied arts which emerged roughly in the period of More generally: a term used to describe a culture made by science and technology

Characteristics of modernism Social structure: Researches order and equilibrium Social roles: Dichotomized roles in society Subjectivity: Centered subject Discourse: neutral (signifier plus signified equals understanding) Knowledge: Truth centered on logos Causality: based on certainty and determinacy Space & Time: Newtonian mechanics and Cartesian system

Modern poetry Use of allusions Myths the Bible Foreign languages Street Life Personal to author Meaning must be searched for by reader Geared towards an intellectual / academic audience

Narrative technique stream of consciousness writing omniscient third person narrators poetry seems more documentary, prose seems more poetic rejection of elaborate formal aesthetics rejection of the distinction between “high” and “low” or popular culture

Understanding of Human Nature Anthropology - study of the origin, culture and development of man Psychology - physical, mental, emotional process of man Philosophy - a critical analysis of beliefs Political Theory - the general beliefs of the nation Psychoanalysis - psychological therapy designed by Sigmund Freud (id, ego, superego)

T.S. ELIOT WORKS: The Waste Land (1922) Four Quarters (1943) Murder in the Cathedral (1935) The Objective correlative The Mythical method

EZRA POUND WORKS: Lume Spento (1908) Cathay (1915) Cantos ( ) Flux of thoughts

JAMES JOYCE WORKS: Dubliners (1914) Ulysses (1922) Finnegan Wake (1939) Epiphany

VIRGINIA WOOLF WORKS: Mrs Dalloway (1925) Orlando (1928) To the Lighthouse (1927)