PPT-Modernist

Zak Diethorn Nicole Steedle Shannon Spangler Time period From beginning of the 20th century to about 1965 The period was marked with breaks in the traditional ways of viewing the world in areas such as society religion and politics. Haley The University of North Carolina Press Single Subject All About Roasting by Molly Stevens WW Norton Company Writing and Literature Blood Bones Butter The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton Random House 2012 James John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser Modernist Novel Hemingway prose model Black Mask(also, Dime Detective, (1939-1950) Dashiell Hammett Raymond Chandler Chinatown, Blade Runner, Body Heat, L.A. Confid 1 2 THE “The Lady in the Looking Glass”. Stream of . consciousness. Woolf considered . a leading . modernist.. “Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad impressions—trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. . . . Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness,” - Virginia Woolf in “Modern Fiction” . . A bandaged Hemingway in front of . Shakespeare and Company. , a “Lost Generation” landmark. . CLOSERIE DES LILAS, BOULEVARD MONTPARNASSE, PARIS. “We might as well go to the . Closerie. ,” Brett said. “I can’t drink these . 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: . 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). Favorite Poem Video ~ . L. angston . H. ughes. We will hear another video from “My favorite poem” – I am showing these to illustrate the transcendent (meaning to extend beyond the ordinary limits) of poetry. . . 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 . 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) . 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. 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.. 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.