Modernism emerged in the early 20th century as a rejection of realism and a call for experimental styles in literature and art. Modernist works emphasized subjective experience over objective reality and fragmented structures over traditional forms. This movement arose in response to the disillusionment caused by World War I and the increasing chaos, loss of faith, and confusion of identity that characterized life in the modern world. Notable modernist American authors included F. Scott Fitzgerald, capturing the jazz-era excess of the 1920s, and John Steinbeck, chronicling the hardship of the Great Depression in the 1930s.
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
One of the most influential literary critical movements of the 20th century. Speaking very generally, Russian Formalism as a critical movement was interested in identifying the specific quality of language use that separated the literary text from the non-literary text. Their approach was scientific inasmuch as they thought it was possible to establish what it is precisely that distinguishes ordinary usages of language from the poetic. Unlike the later post-structuralists, the Russian Formalists treated poetry as an autonomous form of discourse that was distinct from all other forms of discourse. They referred to this difference in qualitative terms as literaturnost (literariness) and sought to quantify (i.e. formalize) it by means of their theory of ostranenie (estrangement), which simply put is the process of making the already familiar seem unfamiliar or strange, thereby awakening in us a heightened state of perception.
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
One of the most influential literary critical movements of the 20th century. Speaking very generally, Russian Formalism as a critical movement was interested in identifying the specific quality of language use that separated the literary text from the non-literary text. Their approach was scientific inasmuch as they thought it was possible to establish what it is precisely that distinguishes ordinary usages of language from the poetic. Unlike the later post-structuralists, the Russian Formalists treated poetry as an autonomous form of discourse that was distinct from all other forms of discourse. They referred to this difference in qualitative terms as literaturnost (literariness) and sought to quantify (i.e. formalize) it by means of their theory of ostranenie (estrangement), which simply put is the process of making the already familiar seem unfamiliar or strange, thereby awakening in us a heightened state of perception.
This is a brief presentation of the basic concepts introduced by Russian formalism. It might be considered as a suitable departing point to the understanding of this literary theory.
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Virginia Woolf biography, works and style. Stream of consciousness and it's features. Introduction, summary, themes, and modernism in To The Lighthouse. Modernism. Modern Novels. Modern writing Techniques, Virginia Woolf life and works.
Modernism is a comprehensive movement which began in the closing years of the 19th century and has had a wide influence internationally during much of the 20th century.
Romantics stressed the individual creativity and the freedom to innovate. Romanticism focussed on the use of creative imagination and the importance of myth and symbolism
This is a brief presentation of the basic concepts introduced by Russian formalism. It might be considered as a suitable departing point to the understanding of this literary theory.
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Virginia Woolf biography, works and style. Stream of consciousness and it's features. Introduction, summary, themes, and modernism in To The Lighthouse. Modernism. Modern Novels. Modern writing Techniques, Virginia Woolf life and works.
Modernism is a comprehensive movement which began in the closing years of the 19th century and has had a wide influence internationally during much of the 20th century.
Romantics stressed the individual creativity and the freedom to innovate. Romanticism focussed on the use of creative imagination and the importance of myth and symbolism
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In linguistics, X-bar theory is a model of phrase-structure grammar and a theory of syntactic category formation[1] that was first proposed by Noam Chomsky in 1970[2] reformulating the ideas of Zellig Harris (1951,[3]) and further developed by Ray Jackendoff (1974,[4] 1977a,[5] 1977b[6]), along the lines of the theory of generative grammar put forth in the 1950s by Chomsky.[7][8] It attempts to capture the structure of phrasal categories with a single uniform structure called the X-bar schema, basing itself on the assumption that any phrase in natural language is an XP (X phrase) that is headed by a given syntactic category X. It played a significant role in resolving issues that phrase structure rules had, representative of which is the proliferation of grammatical rules, which is against the thesis of generative grammar.
In linguistics, X-bar theory is a model of phrase-structure grammar and a theory of syntactic category formation[1] that was first proposed by Noam Chomsky in 1970[2] reformulating the ideas of Zellig Harris (1951,[3]) and further developed by Ray Jackendoff (1974,[4] 1977a,[5] 1977b[6]), along the lines of the theory of generative grammar put forth in the 1950s by Chomsky.[7][8] It attempts to capture the structure of phrasal categories with a single uniform structure called the X-bar schema, basing itself on the assumption that any phrase in natural language is an XP (X phrase) that is headed by a given syntactic category X. It played a significant role in resolving issues that phrase structure rules had, representative of which is the proliferation of grammatical rules, which is against the thesis of generative grammar.
X-bar theory was incorporated into both transformational and nontransformational theories of syntax, including government and binding theory (GB), generalized phrase structure grammar (GPSG), lexical-functional grammar (LFG), and head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG).[9] Although recent work in the minimalist program has largely abandoned X-bar schemata in favor of bare phrase structure approaches, the theory's central assumptions are still valid in different forms and terms in many theories of minimalist syntax.
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2. Modernism
Definition:
a term for the bold new experimental styles
and forms that swept the arts during the
first third of the 20th century.
Modernism called for changes in subject
matter, in fictional styles, in poetic forms,
and in attitudes.
3. Difference between Realism
and Modernism
Whereas REALISM
Emphasized
absolutism, and
Believed that a
single reality could
be determined
through the
observation of
nature
MODERNISM
Argued for cultural
relativism,
And believed that people
make their own meaning
in the world.
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4. Value Differences in the Modern
World
Pre-Modern World
Modern World (Early 20th
Century)
Ordered
Chaotic
Meaningful
Futile
Optimistic
Pessimistic
Stable
Fluctuating
Faith
Loss of faith
Morality/Values
Collapse of Morality/Values
Clear Sense of Identity
Confused Sense of Identity and
Place in the World
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6. The Elements of Modernism
• Emphasis on bold experimentation in style and
form to represent the fragmentation of society
• Rejection of traditional themes and subjects
• Disillusionment and loss of faith in the
American Dream
• Rejection of the ideal hero
• Interest in the inner workings of
the human mind
7. History and Culture
• World War I caused a “traumatic coming of age” where
“Americans returned to their homeland but could never
regain their innocence.”
•
Soldiers from rural roots yearned for a modern,
urban life. (Nick Carraway—The Great Gatsby)
• “Big Boom” business flourished—1920s
• Major advances allowed for fast production of
new technology and business.
• 1920 Americans—The Lost Generation
8. History and Culture (cont.)
• The Lost Generation—
“Without a stable, traditional structure of values,
the individual lost a sense of identity. The
secure, supportive family life; the familiar, settled
community; the natural and eternal rhythms of
nature; the sustaining sense of patriotism; moral
values [founded] on religious beliefs and
observations—all seemed undermined by World
War I and its aftermath.”
9. History and Culture (cont.)
• 1929—The Stock Market Crash brought
The Great Depression of the 1930s.
• 1930s—One third of all Americans
were out of work.
“Soup kitchens, shanty towns, and
armies of hobos—unemployed men
illegally riding freight trains—became
part of the national life.”
10. American Literature
•The Harlem Renaissance
•A time when Harlem attracted worldly and raceconscious African Americans who nurtured each
other’s artistic, musical, and literary talents and
created a flowering of African American arts.
Noted writers: Langston Hughes
Claude McKay
Countee Cullen
W.E.B. Dubois
Zora Neale Hurston
11. American Literature
•
1920s—F. Scott Fitzgerald
—The Great Gatsby
—flamboyance, bootlegging,
money, parties, wildness
—The Jazz Age
•
1930s—John Steinbeck
—Of Mice and Men
—The Grapes of Wrath
—no money, migrant work,
tragedy, hardship
• 1940s—Arthur Miller
— The Crucible
— Death of a Salesman
12. The American Dream
Pre-Modernist View—
•America as the new Eden
•Triumph of the individual
•Optimism
Modernist View
•America as New Eden
•Self-reliance
13. Forces Behind Modernism
The sense that our culture has no
center, no values.
Paradigm shift
from the closed, finite, measurable, causeand-effect universe of the 19th century to
an open, relativistic, changing, strange
universe;
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14. Characteristics of Modernism
in Literature
Literature Exhibits Perspectivism
Meaning comes from the individual’s
perspective and is thus personalized;
A single story might be told from the
perspective of several different people,
with the assumption that the “truth” is
somewhere in the middle
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15. Characteristic of Modernism in
Literature
Perception of language changes:
No longer seen as transparent, allowing us
to “see through” to reality;
But now considered the way an individual
constructs reality;
Language is “thick” with multiple meanings
and varied connotative forces.
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16. Characteristic of Modernism in
Literature
Emphasis on the Experimental
Art is artifact rather than reality;
Organized non-sequentially
Experience
portrayed as layered, allusive,
discontinuous, using fragmentation and
juxtaposition.
Ambiguous endings—open endings which
are seen as more representative of reality.
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