ENG 108 Lecture 3: Week 4 - September 30
2 Mar 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
September 30th, 2015
Modernism
(1890-1940)
Make it new
Social/historical influences:
WWI
Technology (car, airplane, telephone)
Urbanization, immigration
Einstein’s theory of relativity
Freud and psychoanalysis
Movements for racial, gender equality
Characteristics of Modernist Poetry
Fragmentation – does not move in a linear way. The transitions are unclear
and they seem to be out of order.
Collage – All parts are juxtaposed but not related. It is up to the reader to see
how the pieces are related together.
Stream of consciousness – More visible in fiction. This is the idea that a
speaker or character is delivering their thoughts in a stream of consciousness
– they are essentially putting their inner thoughts on display. Idea from
Freud.
Abstraction – The idea that writing is not realistic. It is not rooted in realistic
depiction. It renders the world in unrealistic ways.
African American modernism: draws on folklore, blues rhythms, African
diaspora.
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Ex Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon 9
These traits are seen in this are:
Abstraction – not how human bodies look at
Fragmentation – one girl’s arm is different than the rest of the body
Stream of consciousness – you see how he’s looking at all the girls
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Simile: a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two different things,
usually using like or as
Ex When the evening is spread out… lines -3)
T.S Eliot
Extremely intimating and afraid of women
o (e can’t say what he wants to say to the women
(e’s worried about his own mortality and how he appears to other people
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Document Summary
Urbanization, immigration speaker or character is delivering their thoughts in a stream of consciousness. Characteristics of modernist poetry and they seem to be out of order. how the pieces are related together. depiction. African american modernism: draws on folklore, blues rhythms, african. Fragmentation does not move in a linear way. Collage all parts are juxtaposed but not related. It is up to the reader to see. Stream of consciousness more visible in fiction. They are essentially putting their inner thoughts on display. Abstraction the idea that writing is not realistic. Abstraction not how human bodies look at. Fragmentation one girl"s arm is different than the rest of the body. Stream of consciousness you see how he"s looking at all the girls usually using (cid:498)like(cid:499) or (cid:498)as(cid:499) Ex when the evening is spread out (cid:523)lines (cid:884)-3) (e"s worried about his own mortality and how he appears to other people.
