EN 2002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, World War I
9 Jul 2020
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Because today we are looking at modernism which, as we"ll see, is all about questioning norms and conventions and representation, of monsters and men"s the i of the storm seemed like a good choice. Because we have a number of very different theorists to discuss in relation to modernism, today i"m going to talk about three key figures whose work was central to, or emblematic of, modernism: freud, woolf, and hughes. Modernism: modernism is a theoretical framework which treats the text as socially relevant and as historically determined. Modernism also seeks to wake us up from our complacency (so echoes of the romantics and the marxists there). To be honest, that is an incredibly vague and not terribly helpful definition, but it does give us a starting place! So it is a new world, right? the world is a mess, both literally and figuratively.
