PPT-Modernist

Fiction Writers on the novel 1 It is fine to see how the old three volume tradition is being broken through One volume is becoming commonest of all It is the new school due to continental influence Thackeray and Dickens wrote at enormous length and with profusion of detail their plan is to tell everything and leave nothing to be divined Far more artistic I think is the later method of merely suggesting of dealing with episodes instead of writing biographies The old novelist is omniscient I think it is better to tell a story precisely as one does in real life hinting surmising telling in detail what . 1 2 THE 760 MELFORD E. SPIRO THE IMPORTANCE OF SUBJECTIVITY Postmodernists (like symbolists and interpretivists) stress that the understand- ing of persons and groups requires an understanding of their meanin Sibelius. Jean Sibelius (. 1865–1957. ). Kalevala. (Land of Heroes). Elias . Lönnrot. , 1835. Kullervo. ,. Op. 7 (1891). Four Legends from the . Kalevala. , . Op. 22 (. 1893–95. ) . The Swan of . Jentery Sayers. Assistant Professor, English. Director, Maker Lab in the Humanities. University of Victoria. @jenterysayers. | jentery@. uvic.ca. MLA Convention 2013 | Boston . Today, with “Avenues of Access” in mind: . . Post-modernism. . . POST-MODERNISM . Postmodernism is a concept that encompasses a wide range of ideals, methods and practices. It is more importantly not a philosophical movement in itself, but rather, incorporates a number of philosophical and critical methods that can be considered 'postmodern', the most familiar methods include . Postmodernism. The Postmodern era started in the 1950’s. Writers attempt to blend literary styles. There is a break from traditional forms of writing. Significant Writers. Do you recognise these books?. Which of these factors contributed least to the divide between rural traditionalists and urban modernists in the 1920s?. A. Traditionalists . often viewed modernist trends as immoral.. B. Many . modernists envied the peace and quiet of small-town life.. Events and trends that helped shape Modernism. History that led to Modernism. World War I 1914-1918. First “modern” war. Employed new artillery firepower (machine guns, Howitzers shells, tanks, airplane . Modernism and the Avantgarde. The crisis of modernity 1. Dissatisfaction with reason. Reason: instrument of freedom → instrument of oppression, policing, terror. . Inhumanity of science and technology (Frankenstein, mad scientist, factory as dystopia, production line, machine, WW1) . Cultural . Liberation. Literature and the arts:. Most of earlier genteel writers had died by 1920s. New Yorker Edith Wharton and Virginia-born Willa Cather continued to be popular. Now new modernists becoming popular (see Thinking Globally section). of . Sound. 2. . Histories of Sound and Technology. Listening tech(. nique. )ology in 19. th. century medicine (Nicolson. ). The . Soundscape of Modernity (Thompson). Music in the era of electronic reproduction (. The Great Gatsby . by F. Scott Fitzgerald . We are going to be reading it this unit and looking at how the 4 characteristics of modernism appear throughout it.. . 1. . . Sense . of disillusionment and loss of faith in the “American Dream. Outline. The classic short story. Modernist approaches to short fiction. The context for short fiction in modernism. Katherine Mansfield. D. efinitions. E.M. Forster, . Aspects of the Novel. :. [Story] is immensely old – it goes back to Neolithic times, perhaps to Palaeolithic... The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping round the campfire, fatigued with contending against the mammoth or woolly rhinoceros, and only kept awake by suspense. The [storyteller] droned on, and as soon as the audience guessed what happened next they either fell asleep or killed him.” . 1900-1930. Modernism. The Modernist movement is defined by the highs and lows of the US economy, global conflict, and a new, technological and diverse society.. Shifts in culture marked each decade..