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Modern British andAmerican Literature England and
America are two
countries separatedby a common
language.
George BernardShaw
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Historical ContextDynamic exists between event and human
response.
World affects artisthe/she feelscompelled to create in order to respond
art Guernicamusic
literature
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EventArt form--MovementVietnam War-
60s music
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Hippie Generation
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Modern History Change from the set ways of
Victorian/Edwardian Ages
everything was based on rulesall aspects of life were governed
relationships
mealsdress
Created a FACADE
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Change Inventions
as life became easier with time-saving
devices, people had more time for
THINKING
which
leads to
QUESTIONS
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On or about December 1910, human
character changed. All human
relationships shiftedthose betweenmaster and servant, husband and wife,
parent and children. And when human
relations shift, there is at the same time achange in religion, conduct, politics and
literature. Virginia Woolf
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War!World War I- most pivotal event of 20th C
New innovations in weapons
mustard gas
machine guns
First time that destruction on such a major
scale was possible
blood- dimmed tide--Yeats
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The Great War and PettyPeace---H.G. WellsU.S. enters the war 1917
Armistice- Nov. 11, 1918Treaty of Versailles 1919
Foch-This is not a peace. This is an armisticefor twenty years
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The Irish RebellionUnrest over British rule
religious differences
Irish Catholics/ProtestantAnglicans
Easter 1916-Dublin-rebellionsquashed by Britishbecamemartyrs
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Irish NationalismSurged after Easter uprising
guerilla warfare
1921 Britain grantedindependence to Irish Free
Stateall of Ireland except sixProtestant counties in theprovince of Ulster in the North
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Make it New-Ezra PoundAfter the impact of World War I-
backlash in art world
The World no longer followed the
rules, so why should Art?
Artistic movements respond to traumawith creativity
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Change in Art
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The World Around
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Characteristics of ModernLiterature Experimental
Presents human experience in fragments
Reader needs to p iece it together
Art becomes part ic ipatory
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Characteristics (cont) Uses techniques of Naturalism/Realism
Realismdetails of everyday life
Naturalismexamines the social and
economic problems of the
working class
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Characteristics Use of Psychological Insights
Psychological Realism
Freudsubconscious / sexual motivation
Jung race memories/collective
subconscious
William Jamesstream of consciousnes
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Stream of Consciousness Human mind does not work in
chronological order
Jumps from the present-past-future Reality to an individual is not linear