11) Modernism in the British Isles Flashcards
Name modernist authors
James Joyce, T. S. Elliot, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell
What is Modernism?
response to Victorian values and aesthetic norms
What does Modernism reject?
realism
James Joyce
The Dubliners, Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
What is The Dead?
the final and longest story in “Dubliners”
When was The Dead published?
in 1914
The Dead revolves around the character of ____________
Gabriel Conroy, a university-educated man
What is the setting in The Dead?
the story is set at the annual Christmas party
Who hosts the Christmas party in The Dead?
elderly Morkan sisters along with their niece Mary Jane
What is the name of Gabriel Conroy’s wife?
Gretta
T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land, Ash Wednesday, Four Quartets, The Hollow Men
What is The Waste Land and when was it published?
a modernist poem, published in 1922
Name the five sections of The Waste Land
The Burial of the Dead, The Chess Game, The Fire Sermon, Death by Water, What the Thunder Said
Who edited The Waste Land?
Ezra Pound
Who is the Bloomsbury Group?
a group of writers, essayists, intellectuals
Who belonged to the Bloomsbury Group?
Virginia Woolf, Leonard Wolf, Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, E. M. Forster
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One’s Own, Kew Gardens, To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway, Orlando
When was Kew Gardens published?
1919
What is the setting of Kew Gardens?
London’s Kew Gardens xdd
What is the narrative style of Kew Gardens?
it employs a stream-of-consciousness
What is A Room of One’s Own and when was it published?
a seminal essay, 1929
What is A Room of One’s Own based on?
a series of lectures Woolf gave at women’s colleges at the University of Cambridge
What is the name of the fictional character Woolf creates in A Room of One’s Own?
Judith Shakespeare
George Orwell
1984, A Clergyman’s Daughter
