Download presentation
Presentation is loading. Please wait.
1
To what degree do you judge yourself based on the choices you make?
“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? How are your values related to your choices?
2
VALUE SYSTEM 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE A Crisis in Values
FAMILY FRIENDS LOVE POLITICS FILIAL RESPONSIBILITY MARRIAGE RELIGION CAREER PERSONAL FUFILLMENT SUCCESS HAPPINESS 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE A Crisis in Values VALUE SYSTEM
3
What are the most important issues of the last century?
How do they manifest themselves into the literature we read? RELATION TO CHOICES AND HUMAN PLIGHT VALUE SYSTEM PERSONAL FUFILLMENT SUCCESS HAPPINESS MARRIAGE FILIAL RESPONZ. RELIGION CAREER LOVE FAMILY POLITICS FRIENDS MODERNISM( ish) AN ARTISTIC, MUSICAL, AND LITERARY MOVEMENT IN THE 20TH CENTURY
4
Modernism Definition Continued…
Rejection of nineteenth-century optimism, presented a profoundly pessimistic picture of a culture in disarray. This despair often results in an apparent apathy and moral relativism.
5
Some Modernists Across the Arts
6
MODERN PAINTERS PICASSO MATISSE KANDINSKY DALI
10
MODERN AUTHORS ERNEST HEMINGWAY WILLIAM FAULKNER F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
JOHN STEINBECK
11
MODERN POETS Patricia Smith E.E. Cummings William Carlos Williams
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Robert Frost William Carlos Williams Wallace Stevens Marianne Moore
12
MODERN ARCHITECTS WRIGHT GROPIUS LE CORBUSIER VAN DER ROHE
14
More rationale and practical.
15
MODERN ENTERTAINMENT MOVEMENT
SILENT MOVIES- OFTEN FOCUSED ON THE DANGERS OF THE MODERN WORLD MAJOR ACTORS- CHARLIE CHAPLIN & BUSTER KEATON
16
Characteristics of Modernism as a Cultural Movement
17
FORCES DRIVING MODERNISM
Search for reason in an unreasoned world Concerned with industrialization and the displacement of persons Bothered by the hypocrisy of Christianity
18
MODERNISTS’ VIEW OF THE WORLD
The world is chaos The world is unstable Loss of faith Collapse of morality/values
19
MODERNIST BELIEFS Alienation is an increasingly common condition
No absolute certainties and truths
20
CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERNISM
LOSS OF FAITH IN THE AMERICAN DREAM REJECTION OF ARTIFICIALITY “Isn’t it pretty to think so? - Hemmingway
21
Art and Mentality PICASSO’S CUBISM
- not craftsman but innovation reflective of time period More about truth than beauty; common people not about a rich person commissioning a painting “Art for arts sake” - search FIRST PICTURE-Self Portrait SECOND PICTURE-Self Portrait, cubist period Role of artist changes
22
Art for arts sake…
23
Characteristics of Modern Literature
24
MODERN LITERARY MOVEMENT
Major forms are poetry and fiction Stylistic innovations - disruption of traditional syntax and form. Intention is often to challenge the way readers see the world Time fades and dissolves regarding characters mindset
25
WRITING STYLE Imagery and symbolism- frequent Colloquial language
Literature as art- form, style, and technique are important Often includes much dialogue Stream-of-consciousness; interior dialogue
26
STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Narration is structured by narrator's or character's flow of consciousness and memory Associative (rather than conventional "linear") Often employs flashback and flash forward techniques
27
MODERN HERO IN LITERATURE
Rejection of the ideal hero Hero in modern story will be flawed and disillusioned EXAMPLE: Jay Gatsby- The Great Gatsby George Milton- Of Mice and Men
28
New hero: ironic, frustrating, disappointing, self-doubting, anxious
29
CHARACTERIZATION IN MODERN LITERATURE
Interest in the inner workings of the human mind Intense psychological characterization (Freud and Jung) Reader learns about characters primarily through dialogue
30
PLOTS AND MODERN LITERATURE
EXPLORES: Sense of isolation Uncertainty Disillusionment Disjointedness Meaninglessness
31
MODERN LITERATURE FORMS
Literature often lacked expositions, resolutions, and transitions.
32
THEMES IN MODERN LITERATURE
Critique of traditional values of our culture Loss of meaning and hope in the world Alienation from society and loneliness 4. Violence 5. Decadences and Decay 6. Loss and Despair
33
READERS ROLE OLD READERS His role is passive:
HE IS: Taught Entertained Emotionally involved MODERNIST READERS The reader has an active role must give his own subjective interpretation
34
Rejection of nineteenth-century optimism, presented a profoundly pessimistic picture of a culture in disarray. This despair often results in an apparent apathy and moral relativism
Similar presentations
