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1 The Modern Age Liceo Scientifico “A. Einstein”
School year: 2014 – 2015 Class: 5 ALS Student: Iacumin Jessica

2 The Modern Age: political and economical crisis
1890 – 1930 Tension between European nations because of Colonialism Trade Tension led to World War I (1914 – 1918) New technologies: shocking power of destruction Battleground included Europe, Asia and Africa Consequences: Europe lost self confidence URSS and USA became the leading nations in the world People lost faith in liberal democracy, capitalism, the idea of progress People lost faith in religion

3 The rise of the working class
1917: October revolution led by Lenin The working class wanted to achieve a better position People lost faith in liberal democracy and capitalism 1870s – 1880s: economic and financial crisis caused unemployment Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto” (1848) encourages the rise of the working class The middle class introduced National insurance Unemployment pay Medical treatment

4 Religious crisis Absence of God  Man’s isolation Consequences:
Pessimism and acceptance Personal relationship replaced divine love Adhesion to Christianity Social commitment

5 New discoveries and ideas
Science Euclidean geometry  non Euclidean geometries Newtonian physics  1905: Albert Einstein’s relativity

6 Modern Literature: Poetry
War poetry Symbolist poetry  The Imaginist Movement

7 War poetry Importance given to sounds Irony Realism, details
Unconventional structure, punctuation

8 Symbolist poetry The poet understands the unconscious
Literary language speaks to the irrational part of the reader Importance given to sounds Free verse

9 The Imaginist Movement
Dry and hard language Clear precise images Reflects modern reality Literary references: poetry addresses a small audience

10 Modern Literature: the Novel
The reader is invited to interact with the literary work: No judgement, comments, observations from the narrator The narrator hides behind characters Identification with characters New idea of time Stream of consciousness Dramatic structure of the novel

11 Modern Literature T. S. Eliot James Fraser Jesse Weston

12 T. S. Eliot Mythical method Correlative objective:
Immediate evocation of emotions

13 James Fraser Interest in Darwin’s theories Symbolist poetry
Mythology and pre-history Civilization (study of society) Unconscious conveyed through symbols

14 Jesse Weston Synthesis of geography and history
Interest in the Middle Ages and Grail legends

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