Modernism Test

• Dates of Modernism

  1914-1939
• Modernism


  lit movement that was moved by the disillusionment with tradition
• ELEMENTS OF MODERNISM

  • bold experimental style
  • reject from traditional themes
  • questioning nature of truth
  • reject of sentimentality and artificiality
  • reject of ideal of a hero
• Stream of consciousness: The narrator's thoughts and feelings as they occur to him or her.
• Political and Social events of Modernism

  • Women Empowerment
  • The Great War (WWI)
  • Rise of Marxism
  • The Great Depression
  • Growth of Psychoanalysis
• THE GREAT WAR: class dynamic shifted, women empower, trauma (shell shock)
• Women Empowerment: finding work, right to vote, fashion
• Marxism: embraces socialism as the desired social structure (The Great Depression)
• Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)


  changed how we understood our mind (ID-unconscious/EGO-conscious/SUPEREGO-self critic) true selves under our conscious mind (dream interpretation)
• Pablo Picasso "Three Musicians" 1921 (cubism)

  
• Marcel Duchamp "Fountain" 1917 (Dada)

  
• Magritte "The Treachery of Images" aka "This is Not a Pipe" 1928 (Surrealism)

  
• Salvador Dali "The Persistence of Memory" 1931 (surrealism)

  
• Jazz: African American born; Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, jazz=stressed improve
• Poetry: move from formal structure and focused on feeling rather than meaning (eastern)
• Imagism


  remove prettiness; just saw raw power; exact word no fluff-- found by Ezra Pound and TS Eliot
• About James Joyce

  • Catholic low-mid class Dublin 1882
  • 21 moved to Paris for med school
  • 1904 eloped w/ Nora Barnacles
• James Joyce writing

  • early 20s
  • short stories called Dubliners in 1914
  • first novel="A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" in 1916
  • Very experimental "Ulysses" 1922 (later banned for being vulgar)
• Dubliners


  moral history of his country, Dublin bc it seemed like the center of paralysis, cover national paralysis with character conflict, 15 stories dived into 4 parts
• Four Parts of Dubliners

  1. Childhood - Araby
  2. Adolescence
  3. Maturity
  4. Public Life
• Theme of Epiphany


  characts become self-aware
• Theme of Paralysis

  characters trapped in lives, manly children trapped in adulthood
• Araby

  young boy in love with best friend sister and goes on an adventure bc of her
• Ryu Akutagawa

  japan writer, known as the "Father of the Japanese short story" believed lit should be universal and tried to connect western culture
• In A Grove

  • Japan monthly Shincho
  • early modern short story
  • "truth" and potential unknowability
  • question of memory
  • basis for film "Rashomon"
• "In A Gove" 7 testimonies

  1. The woodcutter
  2. The priest
  3. The policeman
  4. The old women
  5. Tajomaru, The Bandit
  6. The wife
  7. The medium/the samurai
• Samurai: noble military caste in japan

  bushido-samurai code w/ nine virtues

  1. righteousness
  2. heroic courage
  3. benevolence
  4. compassion
  5. respect
  6. honestry
  7. honor
  8. duty
  9. self-control
• Who do you think killed the samurai?- himself and the wife
• How much is memory influenced by external forces?- a lot especially with the bandit and the poilce
• In what ways does the samurai fail to follow bushido?- he may not have honesty, and maybe heroic courage
• What might be each character’s motivation for lying?- police, wife, bandit, and samurai
• What does each character gain by taking responsibility?- police, wife, bandit, samurai
• What role does the supernatural play?- medium
• Harlem Renaissatnce: african american social thought through art, music, dance, lit, etc
• Where was the Harlem Renaissance

  centered?- Harlem a district in New York
• How does the Harlem Renaissance connect to

  the Great Migration?- economic opportunities triggered a migration of black people (south-north)
• How did HR impact history?- redefine how the world understood African Americans, it mixed up white and African culture
• Who do we associate with the Harlem

  Renaissance?- Jacob Lawrence (artists), Langston Hughes (author), Duke Ellington, Louis

  Armstrong, and Bessie Smith (musicians)
• Langston Hughes: jazz , suffering and love for music
• EE Cummings


  1894 Cambridge Mass focused on love and individuality