PPT-LIT 3023 Modernism Time and Consciousness in

Mrs Dalloway Time Clock time Big Ben Internal time Interior monologue Past present future Deep past and deep future suggested in portrayal of the present moment Structural organisation. “We are the sum total of . all the choices we make.”. -Woody Allen. What . choices . must you make? . To . what degree do people judge you on the choices you make?. To . what degree do you judge yourself based on the choices you make?. Background. 1901-1910 – Edward VII. 1902 – End of The Anglo-Boer War. 1910-1936 – George V. 1914-1918 – First World War. 1916 – Dublin, . Easter Rising. 1917 – Revolution in Russia. 1918 – Vote for Women over 30 years of age in G.B.. 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. Literature . 1914-1945. Causes of the Modernist Temper. WWI. Urbanization. Industrialization. Immigration. Technological Evolution. Growth of Modern Science. Influence of Austrian Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). 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 . 1900-1950. What is Modernism?. An international period or movement in European and American art, literature, and culture.. Began in the early 1900s right before WWI (1914-1918).. Ends a little after WWII (1939-1945).. Time and Consciousness in . Mrs. Dalloway. Time. Clock time (Big Ben). Internal time (Interior monologue). Past – present – future (Deep past and deep future suggested in portrayal of the present moment). Woolf (1) . Overview. Virginia Woolf - life and times. As a . modernist novelist. As a critic and thinker. As a feminist. . Woolf. 1882-1941. Another Victorian. Daughter of Leslie Stephen. Educated at home. Causes of the Modernist Temper. WWI. Urbanization. Industrialization. Immigration. Technological Evolution. Growth of Modern Science. Influence of Austrian Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). Influence of German Karl Marx (1818-1883). 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.” The Waste Land. . (2). Overview. Recap on last . lecture. A poem of allusion. Structure. Close reading. The Waste Land. Sources - myth and romance (see Jessie Weston, James Frazer). European literature in general. 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.. behaviour. ?. Dot Point #1: The consciousness continuum . consciousness as a . psychological construct . that . varies along a continuum. , broadly . categorised. into . normal waking . consciousness .