English 210
Modernism
Lecture 1:
- Growth of modernism in 20th century: reaction against conservative constraints & certainties
- Liberalism & freedom of expression
- Requires devastation & loss to find direction: prompted by devastation of WW1, created
change in human consciousness
Move away from didacticism & moralizing in art:
- Didacticism= philosophy that emphasizes instructional & informative qualities in literature
- Disappearance of fixed moral codes of past
- Philosophies from East encouraged West to become less assertive & definitive
Introspection & alienation of individual from society:
- Romantic poets elevated individual feelings as worthy of discussion
- Presented own personal feelings & experiences
- Modernists followed on from Romantics
- Modernists were interested in exploring human mind & emotions in terms of thought, memory &
desire
- Deepened Romantics’ study of nature into the sphere of human nature
Stream of consciousness is formed:
- Movement through thoughts of mind
- Freud’s concept of liminal spaces of consciousness between conscious & unconscious
- Technique of free indirect discourse= narrator’s voice gets mixed up with voice of character
discussing
Emphasis on instinctual & irrational as prime motivating forces in human affairs:
- Freud suggested that people have dark side to minds: driven by irrational forces of
subconscious
- Aspects of human psyche exposed, which had previously only been seen in terms of external
factors determined by religion & society
Abstraction:
- Ideas that suggest further ideas
- Cluster of impressions & tendency of ideas towards probability
Symbolism (not argument) is creative principle:
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Modernism
Lecture 1:
- Growth of modernism in 20th century: reaction against conservative constraints & certainties
- Liberalism & freedom of expression
- Requires devastation & loss to find direction: prompted by devastation of WW1, created
change in human consciousness
Move away from didacticism & moralizing in art:
- Didacticism= philosophy that emphasizes instructional & informative qualities in literature
- Disappearance of fixed moral codes of past
- Philosophies from East encouraged West to become less assertive & definitive
Introspection & alienation of individual from society:
- Romantic poets elevated individual feelings as worthy of discussion
- Presented own personal feelings & experiences
- Modernists followed on from Romantics
- Modernists were interested in exploring human mind & emotions in terms of thought, memory &
desire
- Deepened Romantics’ study of nature into the sphere of human nature
Stream of consciousness is formed:
- Movement through thoughts of mind
- Freud’s concept of liminal spaces of consciousness between conscious & unconscious
- Technique of free indirect discourse= narrator’s voice gets mixed up with voice of character
discussing
Emphasis on instinctual & irrational as prime motivating forces in human affairs:
- Freud suggested that people have dark side to minds: driven by irrational forces of
subconscious
- Aspects of human psyche exposed, which had previously only been seen in terms of external
factors determined by religion & society
Abstraction:
- Ideas that suggest further ideas
- Cluster of impressions & tendency of ideas towards probability
Symbolism (not argument) is creative principle:
[Type here]
THIS IS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF JENNA ROSE LOPES- DO NOT ILLEGALLY DISTRIBUTE.
(SUMMARIES MADE USING ENG 210 LECTURES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA: INTELLECTUAL
CREDIT IS DUE TO THE LECTURERS OF THIS MODULE.)
