ENG140Y5 Lecture Notes - Vorticism, Lyrical Abstraction, Black Comedy
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The metamorphosis kafka notes: the kafkaesque refers to a situation that is nightmarish, bizarre, endlessly and pointlessly complex, and illogical. Other elements of the kafkaesque include a sense of threat or menace, distortion of reality, and psychological disturbance. The individual in the kafkaesque is diminished and derided by his or her superiors and surroundings and feels as sense of isolation and disconnectedness: the symbolist novel, the symbolism of gregor"s metamorphosis (transformation) Mental transformation (the place of human beings alters) Modernism is a broad and inclusive terms that signifies numerous competing literary and cultural movements and aesthetics. Symbolism, vorticism, expressionism, cubism, feminism, impressionism, post impressionism, dadaism, surrealism, A movement in the visual arts of literature that began in. After 1945, expression evolved into many different forms; abstract expressionism, lyrical abstraction, neo- expressionism, etc. Expressionist characteristics continue to appear in much contemporary art: the expressionist aesthetic: Replacement of realism with powerful, exaggerating emotion and thought.
