This Presentation is about Modern Century literaure, Modernism, Poetry and Modern Novel. and Stream of Consiousness. also discuss about Poets and Novelists. This era started from 1900 to 1961

1. Karakoram International University
 Department of Modern Languages
Topic
 Modern Century Literature, Poetry, Novel
and Stream of consiousness

2. Presentation Group 3
 Hajat Hussain (Group Leader)
 Haseena Jan
 Haseen Zehra
 Aien Shah
 Shaheena Bano
 Raja Zubair Hassan
 Shamsullah

4. 1901-1960

5. Modern Age
 Started from beginning of 20th Century
Political History
 World War 1 (1914-1918)
 Emergence of new Nations
 Women Rights Issues
Prepared by Hajat Hussain

7. A Major Literary Movement
 Started in Early 20th Century
Influenced by Charles Darwin
and Karl Marx Theories
 Psychoanalytic Theories
 No Connection With History

8.  When Writers felt they required new
form of writing
 Dissillusionment of Victorian
ideas,belief and their way of writing

9.  The age of Dissillusionment
 The age of Machine
 The age of innovations
 The Age of Interrogations
 The Age of War
 The Age of Disintegration

10.  Irony and satire as a tool of point out
faults, problems within society
 Important characteristic of Modern
literature is that it is oppositon of the
Victorian writers
 At the end of Victorian era There was
felt the need of a change in the sphere of
literature

11.  The modern writers could no longer write in
the old manner
 Writers of the twentieth saw the coming
future of the ‘Golden age’
 Artistic experiment

12.  ThisVictorian idea of permanancy was
replaced among the twentieth century
writers by the sense that nothing is fixed
and final in the world.
 TheVictorians believed in the sanctity of
home life, but in twentieth century the
sentiments of family life declined

13.  Science and Arts really influenced the
modern man.
 Psychology also influence
 The Psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund
Frued became more popular and widely
read

14.  T.S Eliot was dominant figure
 TheWaste Land His famous Poem
 Totally AgainstVictorianism and
Romanticism
 The twentieth century poets who were in
revolt againstVictorianism

15.  In the nineteenth century poetry the main
characteristics was preoccupation with a
dream world
 Under the new conditions modern poets
could not take dream habit seriously.

16.  Arnold was not qualified to give a new
direction to the poetry
 Browning had no aptitude to
understand the complexities of modern life
 It was essential that a new techniques of
communicating meaning
be discovered

17.  Which brought about the movements
known as Imagism and Symbolism in
modern poetry.
 Modern Poets excercise to get a freedom in
choice of new themes
 Use new and wide range of subjects ,
themes and issues.

18. Features of Modern Poetry....
 Totally against the Victorian and
Romantic poetry
 The disappearance of religious faith
 regular metre have been discarded
 no regular rhyming scheme
 Juxtaposition of ideas
 Use of free verse
 Use of irony
 Use of metaphors

19. Movements in Modern Poetry.....
Imagism
Symbolism

20.  Literary movement in early 20th century
 This Movement was Active for 10 Years
 First revolt against the Victorian and Romantic
Poetry
 The Imagists rejected the 19th century poetic
form and language.
 The imagists rejected the sentiments of
Victorian and Romantic Poetry

21. Characteristics....
 They use the Common language
 They used exact words instead of
decorative words
 They create new rhythms

22.  According to them poems are works of art
and not pieces of emotional
 A revolutionary impact on English-
language writing for the rest of the 20th
century.
 Leader of Imagists was Ezra Pound. Other
poets were F.S Flint, James Joyce etc.

23.  First started in France
 Representing things by means of symbols.
 The symbolists found beauty in every detail
of normal day by day life

24.  The symbolists doesnot consider any
particular topic, diction or rhytm to be used
in poetry
 The technique of the symbolists is
impressionistic not representational

25.  The Symbolists poetry in England came
into prominence with the appearance of
 Yeats, Joyce etc were Symbolists.

26. Poets....
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
 Born in USA
 Chief representative and a dominant figure
 Great critic
 Classicist
 A social philospher
 Educated at Harvard University

27. His Work....
he poet surveys the desolate scene of the
world
 Other Poems
 The Love Song of J.Alfed Prufrock
 Burnt Norton
 East Coker
 The Dry salvages

28. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
An Irish
He was anti-rationalist
Founder of Celtic Movement
A symbolist
 Due to World War 1 Yeats wrote in
realistic Direction

29.  The Wanderings of Oisin
 The Poet Pleads with the Elements powers
a symbolism poem
Other Poems
 The Shadowy Waters
 The Winding Stair
 The Tower
 The Wind at Coole

30. Trench Poets or War Poets
The poets who wrotes about war
 Siegfried Sassoon
 Wilfred Owen

31.  Robert Bridges
 G.M Hopkins
 A.E Houseman
 Ezra Pound

32.  Satirical
 War
 Social Injustice
 Arts
 Human Rights
 Life
 Dissatisfaction
 Futurism

33. Modern Novel....
 Most important and popular literary
medium
 Only literary form which can compete for
popularity with the film and the radio.
 Only literary form which meets the need of
the modern world

34.  The modern man also under the influence
of science, is not particularly interested in
the metaphorical expression which is the
characteristic of poetry.
 The modern man prefers the novel form

35.  The modern scientific discoveries, the new
technologies
 The development of psychology
 The stream of consciousness technique,
became an important part of novelist
technique in the twentieth century.

36.  The modern novel is realistic. Realistic
opposed to idealistic
 The modern novel is Psychological
 Under the influence of Sigmund Frued
theories the modern novel tends to reveal
the hidden inner motives behind people’s
action

37.  This term was introduced byWilliam James.
 Used in Novels
 A technique that reveals the character
completely historically as well as
psychologically
 Used byVirginiaWoolf and James Joyce

38. MODERN NOVELIST...
1. The Ancestors
2. The Transitionalists
3. The Moderns

39. Novelists who dominated the earlier part of the
20th century
Herbert George Wells (1866-1946)
 Most intellectual
 insisted that classical humanism should be
discarded in favour of science and biology
 No loyalty to the past.

40. HisWork...
Their novels divided into three parts
1. Scientific romance
2. Domestic novels
3. Sociological novels

41.  Unrivalled
 Masterpieces of imaginative power
Novels
 The Time Machine –hero invent time
machine and accelerate the and project
himself into the future.

42. Other Novels...
 The Island and Dr. Moreau (1896)
 The War of the Worlds’ (1898): Theme of
the invasion of Earth by Mars.
 When the Sleeper Wakes (1899)
 The First Man in the Moon (1901)
 The Food of the Gods (1904)

43. Domestic novels ....
 familiar with the life in London.
Novels
 Kipps (1905): Comedy of class instincts, full
of satire and humour
 Tono Bungay (1909): Disintegration of
English society,
 AnnaVeronica (1909):
 Love and Mrs. Lewisham (1910)
 The History of Mr. Polly (1910)

44. Social problems confronting the men of his
time
Novels
 The New Machiavelli (1911): Story of political
and sociological creeds.
 Mr. Britling sees itThrough (1916): Reaction
of people toWorld War I.
 The Undying fire (1919): Religious and
satiric fantasy.

45. Other Ancestors...
Arnold Bennett
Henry James
Joseph Conard
Kiplings

46.  the new forces resulted from the war which
broke the old tradition.
James Joyce (1822-1941)
• An Irish
• Unique and extraordinary genius
• symbolist

47. Cont.....
 born linguist
 highly gifted
 worked in the ‘stream of consciousness’
technique.

48. His Work....
 Ulysses (1922): Masterpiece, epic,
counterpart of Homer’s Odyssey, speech not
action-a token of humanity, does not present
to life. Used stream of consiousness
 The Dubliners (1914)
 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(1916)
 Exiles (1918)

49.  Woman writer
 Used ‘stream of consciousness’ technique
 Impressed by Ulysses
 Gifted with poetic temperament

50. Her Novels....
 TheVoyage Out (1918): Meaning of life.
 Night and Day (1919)
 Jacob’s Room (1922): first serious
experiment in the stream of consciousness
 Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
 To the Lighthouse (1927)
 Orlando (1928): Liveliest, fantasy.
 TheYears (1937): Simpler form of fiction

51. Other Transitionalists...
Aldous Huxley
D.H Lawrence

52. The Moderns
 William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
 He was Novelist
 Dramatist
 Short story writer
 Naturalistic

53. Novels...
 Liza of Lambeth (1897): Naturalistic,
Picture of life.
 Of Human Bondage (1915)
 The Moon and Sixpence (1919)
 Cakes and Ale (1930)
 The Razor’s Edge (1944): Maugham
seeks the meaning of life.

54. Other Moderns...
 J.B Priestly
 Charles Morgan
 Graham Greene

55. Themes...
War
Social
Woman right
Scientific