MODERNIST LITERATURE
MAINFEATURES
traditional plot replaced by multi-layered, complex narration
fragmentation of narrative point of view
redefinition of concepts of time and place; subjective rather than objective dimensions
use of experimental narrative techniques showing the flux of thoughts of the mind
Stream of Consciousness
MAIN FEATURES
use of free verse and rejection of traditional verse forms in poetry
use of complex vocabulary and concepts
focus on human mind
complexity, anxiety, fragmentation;
subjective rather than objective truths.
Modernist Writers
Virginia Woolf English novelist
T.S. Eliot American-born British poet
James Joyce Irish novelist
Mrs Dalloway (1925)
Stream of Consciousness: indirect interior monologue
Ulysses (1922) Stream of Consciousness: direct interior monologue
The Waste Land (1922)
"Consciousness ..is nothing jointed; it flows" (William James)
metaphors: river or stream
stream of consciousness: plots are not important
open ending
DIRECT INTERIOR MONOLOGUE (Joyce: direct revelation of the character's thoughts WITHOUT the filter of the author)
INDIRECT INTERIOR MONOLOGUE (Woolf: revelation of the character's thoughts through the filter of an unobtrusive omniscient narrator)
PROSE
MODERNIST
NOVELISTS AGAINST MODERNISM
CELEBRATE INDIVIDUAL INWARDNESS, TEXTUAL EXPERIMENTATION
INTEREST IN REALISM / DOCUMENTARISM
THEMES
E.M. FORSTER: critical about British colonialism CULTURAL CLASH between colonisers and colonised (A room with a View)
COLONIAL ISSUES
G.ORWELL: Critical about totalitarianism and dictatorship (Animal farm; 1984)
DYSTOPIAN NOVELS (after WW2)
A. HUXLEY: degraded futuristic societies, humanity is oppressed (Brave New World)
Modernist Literature
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MODERNIST LITERATURE
MAINFEATURES
traditional plot replaced by multi-layered, complex narration
fragmentation of narrative point of view
redefinition of concepts of time and place; subjective rather than objective dimensions
use of experimental narrative techniques showing the flux of thoughts of the mind Stream of Consciousness
MAIN FEATURES
use of free verse and rejection of traditional verse forms in poetry
use of complex vocabulary and concepts
focus on human mind
complexity, anxiety, fragmentation; subjective rather than objective truths.
Modernist Writers
Virginia Woolf English novelist
T.S. Eliot American-born British poet
James Joyce Irish novelist
Mrs Dalloway (1925) Stream of Consciousness: indirect interior monologue
Ulysses (1922) Stream of Consciousness: direct interior monologue
The Waste Land (1922)
"Consciousness ..is nothing jointed; it flows" (William James)
metaphors: river or stream stream of consciousness: plots are not important open ending
DIRECT INTERIOR MONOLOGUE (Joyce: direct revelation of the character's thoughts WITHOUT the filter of the author)
INDIRECT INTERIOR MONOLOGUE (Woolf: revelation of the character's thoughts through the filter of an unobtrusive omniscient narrator)
PROSE
MODERNIST
NOVELISTS AGAINST MODERNISM
CELEBRATE INDIVIDUAL INWARDNESS, TEXTUAL EXPERIMENTATION
INTEREST IN REALISM / DOCUMENTARISM
THEMES
E.M. FORSTER: critical about British colonialism CULTURAL CLASH between colonisers and colonised (A room with a View)
COLONIAL ISSUES
G.ORWELL: Critical about totalitarianism and dictatorship (Animal farm; 1984)
DYSTOPIAN NOVELS (after WW2)
A. HUXLEY: degraded futuristic societies, humanity is oppressed (Brave New World)