Influences Flashcards
1
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Literature and poetry
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- Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Sartre
- Dante
2
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Playwrights
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- Yeats and synge
- James Joyce
3
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Beckett
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- rejected family, nation and religion (three oppressive institutions)
- drawn to clowning
- Pierrot
- Medieval European Carnival (the roles are reversed)
- fought in the French Resistance
- supplies circular narratives that are playful, absurd and irreverent (against praise)
4
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Joyce
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- Ulysses
- stream of consciousness
- radicalised for its content and form
- deification and masturbation
- absurdist to an extent
5
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Dadaism
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- Swiss origin
- radical far-left
- the destruction and reconfiguration of pieces of plays.
6
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Modernism
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- between 2 world wars in Europe
- includes expressionism, symbolism, dadaism, surrealism, cubism and futurism.
7
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Surrealism
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- developed out of dadaism
- released the world of dreams and unconsciousness into art
- JJ and Virginia Woolf
8
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Atonal Music
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- didn’t follow the rules of tonality
- goes against what is expected
9
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Play influences
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- “Pierrot Lunaire”
- “Un Chien Andalou”
- “The Scream”
- “The Divine Comedy”