PPT-MODERNISM

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom  Arthur Erickson War is the highest form of modern art Tommaso Marinetti founder of Futurism. The Waste Land. 434 Lines. Published in 1922. Considered one of, if not the, most important poem of the 20. th. century.. Edited by Ezra Pound, leading poet of the Modern Period.. The Waste Land. The five parts of . Judeo-Christian beliefs = apathy or contempt?. Opt for believing in things that seem incoherent or bizarre?. Popular . culture . nurtures aberrant beliefs or misinformed beliefs. My general approach. realism.. . Arguably . the most paradigmatic motive of modernism is the rejection of . tradition and . its reprise, incorporation, rewriting, recapitulation, revision and parody in new . forms.. . Modernism . 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. Original publication date- 1925. Prior knowledge?. Gatsby Intro- Context. Post war. Pre-Crash. Prohibition. Old Money vs. New Money. American Dream. Gatsby Intro- Modernism. The term modernism refers to the radical shift in aesthetic and cultural sensibilities evident in the art and literature of the post-World War One period. . "modernism"). It is a further theme of this work that this influence has been for the worse, not for the better. Modernism in philosophy is characterized by skepticism "father of modern philosophy The . Lost. Generation. -Isms. Romanticism, Dark Romanticism, Transcendentalism. (Louisiana Purchase, figuring out the role of government, industrialization vs. nature). Realism. (Reaction to the Civil War, push to make literature relatable). Movements in Literature and Art. Modernism in Literature. Post WWI, pre WWII. Nontraditional syntax and forms. Accessible to everyone, not just academics. Pessimistic picture of a culture in chaos. Question moral and philosophical meanings. 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).. 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.. 1914-1945. Major Influences. World War I. The Jazz Age/Roaring Twenties. Prohibition. The Harlem Renaissance. 19. th. Amendment (Women Suffrage). The . Great Depression. The New . Deal. Factories. Larger cities. 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.”. 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