2. Definition Context Literature: Literature - Representants Representants - Text Text - Tecniques Tecniques In reaction to…

3. The term coversthe experiences of many political, cultural and artistic movements influenced by the changes in Western society at the end of XIX and beginning of XX century (1884 -1914) Modernism describes a series of reforming cultural movements in: - arts - architecture - music - literature - applied arts

4. Features: the power of human beings → to create, improve, and reshape their environment, with the aid of scientific knowledge, technology and practical experimentation. - re-examination of every aspect of existence, to replace the old with new → the new realities of the industrial and mechanized age were permanent and imminent → people should adapt their world view to accept the new equaled the good, the true and the beautiful.

5. key words of Modernism: equilibrium; homeostasis; tension reduction; order; homogeneity; consensus; normativity; totality; role-taking; socialization; integration; "me"; centered; the individual; transparent; reflective; self-directing; spoken subject; transcendental self; cogito ergo sum; logos; rational man; conscious, autonomous being; desire centered on lack; global; neutral; dominant; education as liberating; truth; privileging scientific knowledge; absolute postulates; evolutionary; rationalization; linear; Absolute Spirit; reaction and negation.

6. Effects of Industrial revolution Crisis of liberal democracy C. Darwin’s theory Capitalism Religious crisis God is dead (F. Nietzsche) A. Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

7. Modernist poetry in English early years of the 20th century  Imagist poets = writing in reaction to the excesses of Victorian poetry (REJECTED its emphasis on traditional formalism and oflowery poetic diction.)

8. James Joyce T. S. Eliot Virginia Woolf D. H. Lawrence Ezra Pound

9. Tradition and Individual Talent (T.S. Eliot) Tradition and Individual Talent The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (T.S. Eliot) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock The Waste Land (T.S. Eliot) The Waste Land Molly's monologue (J- Joyce) Molly's monologue Eveline (J. Joyce) Eveline Mrs Dalloway (V. Woolf)

10. Features of modernist literature:  emphasis on impressionism and subjectivity  blurring of distinctions between genres  works of art can provide the unit  inter-textuality  the mythical method  the objective correlative  Anthropology  everything is relative  the stream of consciousness  plot reduced to the minimum  third-person narrators - interior monologue - fragmentation as something tragic

11. People can’t find a point of reference because science didn’t work. Thinkers rebel against nineteenth century academic and historicist traditions the "traditional" forms of art (architecture, literature, religious faith, social organization and daily life)  outdated