A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Objective Correlative, Big Business, Compson Family
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And cultural movement; took up some issues from realism and. Naturalism; mirroring time between the 2 world wars with all its changes in the intellectual climate (ranging from einstein"s theory of relativity to freud"s psychoanalysis), leading to uncertainties + insecurities general characteristics include: Away from fixed (literary) concepts, statements, figures, perceptions. Uncertainty (about the human race: wwi caused destruction on a scale that had been unimaginable before then) Alienation of the individual from other individuals & from the world. Stream-of-consciousness (mirroring the constructedness via the thought process and unregulated perception) Fragmentation (no longer a complete, logical entity but tend to get only bits and pieces. Those bits and pieces do not necessarily add up to something complete and logical. ) To make that world resonate somehow in the text, modernists rely on symbolism. ) Modernist poetry (including dorothy parker"s emancipatory women"s poetry) + drama (little theaters + eugene o"neill), & specific flourishing of african american literature and culture in.
