Influences Flashcards

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Literature and poetry

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  • Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Sartre

- Dante

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Playwrights

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  • Yeats and synge

- James Joyce

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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)
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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
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Dadaism

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  • Swiss origin
  • radical far-left
  • the destruction and reconfiguration of pieces of plays.
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Modernism

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  • between 2 world wars in Europe

- includes expressionism, symbolism, dadaism, surrealism, cubism and futurism.

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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
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Atonal Music

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  • didn’t follow the rules of tonality

- goes against what is expected

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Play influences

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  • “Pierrot Lunaire”
  • “Un Chien Andalou”
  • “The Scream”
  • “The Divine Comedy”
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