20th century

1. THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS: -psychological phenomenon of the flowing of thoughts in human mind

2. STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS: -the technique consists on trying to represent the unspoken activity of the mind in a novel by adopting the interior monologue

3. JAMES JOYCE: -characters's inner world is essential - time is subjective - purpose is render life objectively (Dubliners "Eveline", A portrait of the artist as a joung man, Ulysses)

4. EDWARDIAN AGE: - society has many values, class distinctions, lots of poor people (similar to Victorian Society) -development and growth of urban transport -peack of industrialization

5. WAR POETS: -during WWI a group of soldiers, who actually experienced the fighting, managed to represent modern warfare in a realistic and unconventional way (tragic life in trenches) ROOPERT BROOKE: - war is clean and cleansing , death is seen as a reward -"young romantic hero", sentimental attitude ("The Soldiers") WILFRED OWEN: -war propaganda is a lie, a way to enlist young man - his poems are painful in the accurate accounts of gas casualties, men who are clinically alive although their bodies have been destroyed ("Dulce et Decorum est")

6. THE AGE OF ANXIETY : -period of crisis marked by isolation and anxiety -art and literature break with tradition and artists restore the the role of literature as a guide to the perplexities of the age -new scientifc theories destroy centuries of beliefs

7. THE MODERNOVEL: Modern writers - reflect novelist's lack of faith in traditional values, disillusionment caused by progress, science, technology - conceive of time as a continuous flux in which only individual consciousness identifies significant moments

8. WWI: 1914-1918 -assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (June, 1914) -patriotism -war considered an heroic adventure which defends country and restores justice and liberty -terrible and strenous life condition of soldiers in trenches

9. THE MODERN POETRY: -imagines and vorticism -celtic revival W.H AUDEN -traditional form -less obscure language -concerned about social problems "Funeral Blues" T.S ELIOT: -failure of Western civilization "The Waste Land" -Sterily, chaos of modern society -alienation "Theory of impersonal poetry", "The metaphor of Reassembled stained-glass windows

10. VIRGINIA WOOLF: -human personality (continuous shift of emotions and impressions -aim (give voice to the inner of feeling -point of view (shifted inside characters' minds thanks to associations of ideas, flashbacks and momentary impressions; Mr Dalloway, Clarissa and Septimus