MODERNISM

1. need to reflect the complexity of modern urban life in an artistic form

2. international movement in all fields of art (litterature, music, art..)

2.1. it spreads in the first decades of XX century, in litterature after World War I

3. sense of disillusionment and fragmentation, desidere to break with the past

4. main features

4.1. intentional distortion of shapes

4.2. no limitation in space and time, no linear flow in narration

4.3. use of allusive language and association of words

4.4. isolated moment/ image to have an insight into nature of things

5. inspired both by classical and new cultures in order to create a new subjective mythology

5.1. COSMOPOLITAN MOVEMENT

6. NOVEL

6.1. STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

6.1.1. style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue. James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust are among its notable early exponents.

6.2. importance of unconscious

6.3. Three Groups of Writers

6.3.1. Psycological novelist - focused on character's mind development. J.CONRAD, D.H. LAWRENCE, F.M. FORSTER

6.3.2. Novelist experimenting with subjective narrative techniques. J.JOYCE, V. WOOLF

6.3.3. Novelists focused on the political problems of 1930s society. G. ORWELL, A. HUXLEY