Aspects Of Literary Modernism
Aspects ofLiterary ModernismOrHow to Recognize a Modernist Novel or PoemWhen You See One
Contextualizing Modernism Social, economic, political and social aspects ofearly 20th-century metropolis (Williams) Diversity of metropolis brought about by colonialand rural to urban immigration (rural socialexpectations and social structures dissolve) Possibility of creating new social, cultural andeconomic formations/organizations/relationships Class noted political movements (woman’s suffrage)and social conditions (prohibition) that broughtpeople together across social and economic lines
Contextualizing Modernism City, cont’d Intensification of feelings of alienation, isolation,strangeness of existence in city and of moraldarkness of city and its physical layout Possibility of the city—new types of identities in“open, complex and mobile society” (Williams 91) City gave audience to and space for pool of newwriters Metropolitan dwellers having “exceptional libertiesof expression” (Williams 91)
Contextualizing Modernism Masculine anxiety over women’s success inliterary marketplace that intensified in early 20thcentury giving rise to “exclusive” modernistaesthetic (Gilbert and Gubar) Blues, jazz—rise of African American art forms—growing use of vernacular language and folkculture in African American literature (Baker)
Context Influences Form Williams identifying “breaks in form” as definingcharacteristic of modernism rising out of artists andintellectuals location “within the changing milieu ofthe metropolis” (90) “Openness and complexity” of metropolis engenderingopenness of form. “Emphasis on medium, and on whatcan be done in the medium, became dominant” (92). Immigrants confronted with new language (andnatives with new uses) see it as arbitrary rather thannatural and thus open to shaping and reshaping
Context Influences Form “Renaissancism”: “a spirit of nationalisticengagement . . . that prompts the black artist’sawareness that his or her only possible foundationfor authentic and modern expressivity resides in adiscursive field marked by formal mastery andsounding deformation” (Baker 108)—a mixture “ofclass and mass” (109). Gilbert and Gubar see modernism as “an integralpart of a complex response to female precursors andcontemporaries” (156) “Exclusive” language and form of anti-establishmentavant-garde (“use of puns, allusions, phrases in foreignlanguages, arcane and fractured forms”) (156).
Modernisms“Although modernism canbe clearly identified as adistinctive movement, inits deliberate distancefrom and challenge tomore traditional forms ofart and thought, it is alsostrongly characterised byits internal diversity ofmethods and emphases; arestless and oftencompetitive sequence ofexperiments, always moreimmediately recognised bywhat they are breakingfrom than by what . . . theyare breaking towards”(Williams 89).
Literary Modernism Emphasis on impressionism and subjectivity(individual consciousness experiencing a moment:stream of consciousness, form of interiormonologue). Exploration of how seeing takes place, rather thanon what is perceived. Movement away from the apparent objectivityprovided by omniscient third-person narrators,fixed narrative points of view, and clear-cut moralpositions.Material from Dr. Mary Klages, “Modern Critical Thought” course handouts.Available at: ages/pomo.html.
Literary Modernism, cont’d Blurring or melding ofgenre styles. Time and space becomesubjective, move inward.According to Lye, spaceis “structuredsymbolically ormetaphorically” and“time becomespsychological time.”Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory,1931. Image courtesy MOMA.
Literary Modernism, cont’d Experimentation in form in order to presentdifferently, afresh, the structure, theconnections, and the experience of life. Language is seen as a complex, nuanced site ofour construction of the 'real'; its multiplemeanings and varied connotative forces areessential to our elusive, multiple, complex senseof and cultural construction of reality.Text from Howard Lye, “Some Attributes of Modernist Literature.”Available at: m.php
Literary Modernism, cont’d a tendency towardreflexivity, or selfconsciousness, about theproduction of the work ofart, so that each piececalls attention to its ownstatus as a production, assomething constructedand consumed inparticular ways.Duchamp, Marcel. Fountain. 1917.Image courtesy of: SF MOMAText from Dr. Mary Klages, “Modern Critical Thought” course handouts. Available 2Klages/pomo.html.
Literary Modernism and Woolf Scott draws attentionto Woolf’s use ofrepetition andmetaphoric language Woolf’s owndiscussion ofmodernism in“Modern Novels”Freund, Gisele. Photograph ofVirginia Woolf. 1939. Imagecourtesy: Guardian.co.uk
Mrs. Dalloway, Opening Language of newness, calmness and peace: children,“fresh,” beach, wave (extended metaphor of beach) However, these images interspersed with ominousovertones of death and anxiety Multiple connotations of term “plunge” and “plungedat Bourton into the open air” (3). Clarissa’s feeling at 18 “that something awful wasabout to happen” (3). Peter: motif of him being in her thoughtscontinually, marriage plot, comfort with her,intrusion into her physical and mental solitude
Image Sources Bell, Vanessa. Portrait of Virginia Woolf. 1912. NationalGallery, London. The Art Fund. Web. 8 Jan. 2010. Dali, Salvador. The Persistence of Memory. 1931. Museum ofModern Art, New York. MoMA. Web. 1 Jan. 2010. Duchamp, Marcel. Fountain. 1917. San Francisco Museum ofModern Art, San Francisco. SFMOMA. Web. 1 Jan. 2010. Freund, Gisele. Photograph of Virginia Woolf. 1939. NationalPortrait Gallery, London. “Gay Icons at the National PortraitGallery.” The Guardian, 1 July 2009. Web. 8 Jan. 2010. Lewis, Wyndam. Portrait of T.S. Eliot. 1938. “Banned T.S.Eliot Portrait Goes on Show.” The Independent, 3 July 2008.Web. 8 Jan. 2010. Reiss, Weinold. Portrait of Jean Toomer. “Jean Toomer’s Lifeand Career.” Modern American Poetry. Web. 8 Jan. 2010.
avant-garde (“use of puns, allusions, phrases in foreign languages, arcane and fractured forms”) (156). Modernisms “Although modernism can be clearly identified as a distinctive movement, in . Modernism and The Great Gatsb
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