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Introduction
Lecture Outline
Charles Darwin (1809-82) and Modernism
Karl Marx (1818-83) and Modernism
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and Modernism
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) and Modernism
World War I and Modernism
The Aesthetics of Modernism -- "making it new"; example of Imagism and "The Red Wheelbarrow" (1923) by William Carlos Williams
Cubism -- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" (1922)
James Joyce's Ulysses (1922)
Conclusion
Context of Modernism: Make it new and weird and shocking and never-ending and
Concept #1: Avant-garde experimentation
Concept #2: Stream-of-consciousness
Brief interlude: What's the difference between stream-of-consciousness and interior monologue?
Concept #3: 'Must be difficult'
Concept #4: The 'new' Modern subject
Context of Modernism: Make it new and weird and shocking and never-ending and
Concept #1: Avant-garde experimentation
Concept #2: Stream-of-consciousness
Brief interlude: What's the difference between stream-of-consciousness and interior monologue?
Concept #3: 'Must be difficult'
Concept #4: The 'new' Modern subject
Modernism
Modernist writers were well known for using the "stream-of- consciousness" style of writing. Most Modernist fiction was cast in first person.
James Joyce From Dublin, Ireland, his most experimental and famous work, Ulysses, completely abandons generally accepted notions of plot, setting, and characters
For writers like Hemingway and Fitzgerald, World War I destroyed the illusion that acting virtuously brought about good.
"Farewell to Arms" narrates the tale of an ambulance driver searching for meaning in WWI.