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LESSON NOTES 9.03.12
Modernism is a cultural movement developed during the first three decades of the 20th century. The key word of Modernism is QUEST: Modernism is research and experimentation of new artistic techniques because Modernist writers consider traditional novel unable to convey the true sense of live.
Modernist fiction includes novels and short stories.
The most important modernist writers are Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. They both want to make the reader's attention focus on the character's conscious and inner life: their aim is to express the stream of consciousness of their characters.
To reach this aim, Virginia Woolf adopts the interior monologue: so there is a third person omniscient narrator, a free indirect style, the shift of point of view and the eclipse of the narrator. With Virginia Woolf there are connectors and a separation of inner and external time yet.
James Joyce, instead, in order to reach the same objective, adopted the stream of consciousness technique, also called the total stream of consciousness technique: there is a total destruction of the syntax, there are no connectors, no punctuation, no logical connections, which are a guide for the reader. As a result, the reader's role is very demanded because the narrator asks him/her to cooperate with the text.
Virginia Woolf and James Joyce adopted the "language of sense impressions" to render realistic the stream of thoughts of the characters.
In Dubliners, James Joyce wants to illustrate the paralysis of Irish society. He uses a lot of symbols which cover the deepest reality.
Dubliners' characters are anti-heroes because they have desires, aspirations and expectations but at the end they aren't able to act, they're paralyzed.
In his narrative production , Mr. Joyce takes as points of reference French symbolism and Greek classical epopees (Omer's Odyssey).
Myth of Odyssey is the structural principle which puts into significance the mental panorama which apparently seems without any sense: it is the mythological method.
Mythological method is defined by T.S. Eliot; in a review "The Dial", he explains that people dislike Ulysses because they haven't catch the mythological structure beyond the story.
Mythological method function is to demonstrate that human being is always the same: situations, contexts and time change but not human nature.
Modernism is a cultural movement developed during the first three decades of the 20th century. The key word of Modernism is QUEST: Modernism is research and experimentation of new artistic techniques because Modernist writers consider traditional novel unable to convey the true sense of live.
Modernist fiction includes novels and short stories.
The most important modernist writers are Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. They both want to make the reader's attention focus on the character's conscious and inner life: their aim is to express the stream of consciousness of their characters.
To reach this aim, Virginia Woolf adopts the interior monologue: so there is a third person omniscient narrator, a free indirect style, the shift of point of view and the eclipse of the narrator. With Virginia Woolf there are connectors and a separation of inner and external time yet.
James Joyce, instead, in order to reach the same objective, adopted the stream of consciousness technique, also called the total stream of consciousness technique: there is a total destruction of the syntax, there are no connectors, no punctuation, no logical connections, which are a guide for the reader. As a result, the reader's role is very demanded because the narrator asks him/her to cooperate with the text.
Virginia Woolf and James Joyce adopted the "language of sense impressions" to render realistic the stream of thoughts of the characters.
In Dubliners, James Joyce wants to illustrate the paralysis of Irish society. He uses a lot of symbols which cover the deepest reality.
Dubliners' characters are anti-heroes because they have desires, aspirations and expectations but at the end they aren't able to act, they're paralyzed.
In his narrative production , Mr. Joyce takes as points of reference French symbolism and Greek classical epopees (Omer's Odyssey).
Myth of Odyssey is the structural principle which puts into significance the mental panorama which apparently seems without any sense: it is the mythological method.
Mythological method is defined by T.S. Eliot; in a review "The Dial", he explains that people dislike Ulysses because they haven't catch the mythological structure beyond the story.
Mythological method function is to demonstrate that human being is always the same: situations, contexts and time change but not human nature.