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Brit Lit Modern
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Modernism = literary movement that is significantly influenced by thinkers who questioned certainties that previously supported traditional social structures, religion, morality, and concept of self. | |
| Thinkers + Philosophers = (4) | - Karl Marx - Friedrich Nietzsche - Sigmund Freud - Sir James Frazer |
| Authors = (6) | - William Yeat - James Joyce - Virginia Woolf - T. S. Eliot - D. H. Lawrence - Joseph Conrad |
| Time marked by marked by disillusionment, fragmentation, and uncertainty, particularly in the aftermath of World War I and throughout the 20th century | |
| General Characteristics of Modernism = pt.1 (3) | - Violated traditional syntax (no longer beginning to end) - Stream-of-Consciousness (provides the uninterrupted flow of an individual’s thoughts +feelings - Symbolism (multi-layered, depends on the reader not author) |
| General Characteristics of Modernism = pt.2 (4) | - Absurdity (existential crisis of human existence) - Diversity of voices; unreliable narrators - Mythical Method: uses ancient myths to structure modern chaos (Joyce, Eliot). -Examined the dissociation of mind and body through alienation |
| Virginia Woolf's "The Mark on the Wall" pt.1 (2) | - Setting: (her mind, Questions everything, Uses Shakespeare) ◦ Themes: ("inaccuracy of thought" + "mystery of life) + (Societal structures like Whitaker's Table of Precedency) |
| Virginia Woolf's "The Mark on the Wall" pt.2 (2) | - Techniques = stream-of-consciousness + uncertainty about objective knowledge - Symbolism = (the uncertainty of rational knowledge, the potential for familiar spaces to become mysterious again) |
| Virginia Woolf's "The Mark on the Wall" pt.3 (1) | - Feminist themes, critique of patriarchy (mentions Charles 1st (1st king to be executed, + Not a good cleaner means that she doesn't value her role as a woman in society’s eyes and wishes to be more) |
| Modernism in Heart of Darkness (Conrad) pt.1 (2) Summary = a novella that explores the dark side of human nature and European imperialism especially shown with Kurtz. | - Uncertainty of truth, value, and identity - Fractured narrative (many narrators= Nameless narrator, Marlow) builds alienation as reader is lost in story + his audience can’t imagine the colonialism horrors |
| Modernism in Heart of Darkness (Conrad) pt.2 (2) Summary = a novella that explores the dark side of human nature and European imperialism especially shown with Kurtz. | - Symbols that subvert expectations = White: (Corruption) - Absurdity and alienation in colonialism + human condition |
| Modernism in Araby (Joyce) pt.1 (2) Summary = A young boy's romantic infatuation with Mangan's sister leads him to an ultimately disappointing journey to a bazaar called Araby | - Replacing conventional structure with epiphanies (eureka type moments) - Focus on the protagonist's thoughts and feelings, a little of Stream of Consciousness, emphasizing internal reality |
| Modernism in Araby (Joyce) pt.2 (2) Summary = A young boy's romantic infatuation with Mangan's sister leads him to an ultimately disappointing journey to a bazaar called Araby | - Contrast between romantic idealization +mundane, often reality reflecting alienation - Symbolism = Boy: Knight on a mission; Crush = beacon of hope |
| Modernism in The Love Songs of J. Alfred Prufrock (LS) & The Waste Land (WL) (Eliot) (3) pt.1 In WL used Mythic Method for the dead (not sure if important) | - Fragmented; Shifts from one narrator to the next with no name, making reader alienated - Symbolism =Landscapes in WL (Dry stone, the Unreal City) are symbolic of spiritual decay - LS Depicted the individual self as changing + identity crisis |
| Modernism in The Love Songs of J. Alfred Prufrock (LS) & The Waste Land (WL) (Eliot) (3) pt.2 | - LS = “LIfe with coffee spoons” = Reality is dull - LS inability to act or connect, sense of being judged, reflets alienation and lack of connection - Both = No exact ending (reflecting paralysis in the grand scheme) + left for reader to interpret it |
| Key Thinkers' Impact on Modernism (Not sure if important) (4) | - Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Frazer questioned tradition, morality, identity - Freud → focus on unconscious mind (stream of consciousness) - Nietzsche → Critique of religion - Frazer → myth + ritual influenced mythic method (Shown in Waste of the Land) |
| T. S. Eliot's life (3) | - Determined to remain in England, Eliot earned a living as a teacher, as an accountant at Lloyd’s Bank, and as an editor at Faber and Faber publishers - converted to Anglicanism + became British Citizen - employs symbolism |
| James Joyce life (4) | - Born in Dublin, from Catholic, middle-class family - Left Ireland w/ partner Nora Barnacle - Wrote about Dublin life, shaped by education, family +Irish politics. - Faced personal challenges: financial struggles + eyesight loss |
| Virginia Woolf Life (4) | - Daughter of literary critic Sir Leslie Stephen - Privately educated; suffered early family losses - Member of the Bloomsbury Group; pioneer in feminist and modernist writing. - Committed suicide after lifelong struggles with depression. |
| Joseph Conrad life (6) | - Born in Russian-controlled Ukraine - Both parents died of tuberculosis after being imprisoned - Raised by uncle - Became a captain - Faced gambling debts + attempted suicide - Commanded a steamship in the Congo |
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