The Victorian Age. It signs the triumph of capitalism and competition. It is collocated in the 19th century during Queen Victoria’s reign. People should learn something by art. Novel became very important: The third person omniscent narrator - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
The Victorian Age It is collocated in the 19th century during Queen Victoria’s reign It signs the triumph of capitalism and competition People should learn something by art Novel became very important: The third person omniscent narrator The prevailing of the technique of telling It shows what is wrong and what is right It offers a moral There is a chronological concept of time Daniel Defoe wrote “Robinson Crouse” and Henry Fielding wrote “Tom Jones”
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The Victorian Age
It is collocated in the 19th century during Queen Victoria’s reign
It signs the triumph of capitalism
and competition People should
learn something by art
Novel became very important:
The third person omniscent narratorThe prevailing of the technique of tellingIt shows what is wrong and what is rightIt offers a moral There is a chronological concept of timeIt is very similar to reality
Daniel Defoe wrote “Robinson Crouse”
and Henry Fielding wrote
“Tom Jones”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“God is dead”
Charles Darwin
“The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection “ Men were not created by God.
People could no longer believe in God because he doesn’t exist
Albert Einstein
“General Theory
of Relativity”
Henri Bergson
William James
Space and time do not exist as separate phenomena. Past and future exist together with the
present in people’s mind
Sigmund Freud
“The Interpretations of Dreams”
Carl Jung
“The Psychology of the
Unconscious”
The unconscious part of mind
Modernism
It rejected the old Victorian standards
of art: art should not teach something
It is located during the first three decades
of the 20th century
It is the movement from which
Postmodernism seems to emerge
LITERATURE:
Plot is reduced to the minimumThe eciplice of narratorThe prevailing of the showing techniqueThe inner monologue Focus the phycologyThe shift of the point of viewPoetical language
It is more important
HOW you say something rather than
WHAT you say
Rainer Maria Mallarme
The major figures of modernism literature
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Etza Pound
Wallace Stevens
Marcel Proust
Franz Kafka
Virginia Woolf
She lived from 1882 to 1941 and is considered one of the
most relevant writers of Modernism.
The adoption of the interior monologue
Plot is reduced to the minimum
There are both simultaneous time and chronological time
Omniscient third person narrator
The shift of the point of view
Poetical language with poetical devices
“Mrs Dalloway” 1925
James JoyceStream of consciousness technique First person narrator Simultaneous time No punctuation: formal aspect is relevant in Modernism It is very similar to reality The reader should works hard to understand everything
“Ulysses”: it is sat in Dublin, in 16 June 1904. It is connected
