PPT-Modernism Rachel Smith and Robert Skrob

Modernism Rachel Smith and Robert Skrob The Beginnings of Modernism The modernist movement arose during the Industrial Revolution As there was a rapid advance in technology transportation and manufacturing there was a drastic change in the quality of life in American and European countries. Reading Contemporary Fiction. Lecture Week Seven. Structure of the lecture. Realism, a brief recap.. Modernism. Modernist . Fiction. Post-Structuralism and Post-Modernism. A Post-Modern text: 500 Days of Summer. “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort…with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.”. 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 . APPROACHING MODERNISM Dubliners. : James Joyce . Shahd. . Alshammari. , AOU, Spring Semester 2013/14. Intro to Part One. The short story as ‘the child of the century’ Elizabeth Brown. . The concept of literary period- historical, cultural, artistic. . Defining. Modernism. “I haven’t changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it…It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That’s what modernism means to me.”. ECLS. The Innovation . Rachel.Lofthouse@ncl.ac.uk. ECLS. Emerging evidence of impact . Rachel.Lofthouse@ncl.ac.uk. ECLS. Rajesh Kevin Sanjay. “Modernism is not a precise label but instead a way of referring to the efforts of many individuals across the arts who tried to move away from established modes of representations”. Modernism 1 Modernism….. An international artistic movement Architecture, arts and crafts, film and literature Began in the latter part of the 19 th century Came to an end(?) in the middle of the twentieth century Modernism 1915-1940 After World War I Disillusionment with eternal verities of “glory,” “honor,” and “patriotism” after what the soldiers had witnessed. Gertrude Stein (actually, she overheard this): “You are all a lost generation.” Arnona. Axelrod. Gil’ad. -. Betsalel. Arieh. Zaritsky. Baruch. Levy. Uri. Asia. Polyakov. Dan . Porat. . *. (Hans . Fürst. ). Hilla. Zaritsky. Shunit. . Flako. -. Zaritsky. Assaf. Zaritsky. Noa. WHEREAS NFTY is an organization which AND WHEREAS Rachel Mersky Woda has communal service worker, colleague and AND WHEREAS Rachel Mersky Woda has been engaged in informal Jewish education through h NON - INQUEST FINDINGS CITATION: Investigation into the death of Rachel Danielle SMITH TITLE OF COURT: Coroner’s Court JURISDICTION: Southport FILE NO(s): 2012/2563 FINDINGS OF: Mr James McDougall Questions to consider . Define the word “modern” in your own words:. What does the word modern mean to you? . What are its associations?. Is it a positive or negative term? Why?. Definition. Modernism is a literary and cultural international movement which flourished in the first decades of the 20th century. It reflects a sense of cultural crisis which was both exciting and disquieting, in that it opened up a whole new vista of human possibilities at the same time as putting into question any previously accepted means of grounding and evaluating new ideas. Modernism is marked by experimentation, particularly manipulation of form, and by the realization that knowledge is not absolute..