Modern Age Flashcards
1
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Stream of consciousness
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Dorothy Richardson: Pointed Roofs
Critic: May Sinclair
Proust
2
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D. H. Lawrence
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Hated materialism. Body and mind in harmony. Sexuality.
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover (pornographic, banned)
- Women in Love
3
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James Joyce
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Consciousness of man through collective memory (tales, mythology, songs)
- Dubliners (centre of paralysis)
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Steven Dedalus, autobiographic: art, catho and Irish background)
- Finnegan’s Wake (sums up history through dream, language)
- Ulysses: pattern of Odyssey, Bloom (Irish Jew) and Dedalus (artist back from exile)
4
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Virginia Woolf
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Daughter of Leslie Stevenson, Bloomsbury group, marry Leonard Woolf, Hogarth Press
- The Voyage Out
- Jacob’s Room
- Mrs Dalloway (1925)
- To the Light House (10 years)
- Orlando (androgynous)
- A Room of ones own (essay, feminism)
- The Waves (6 internal monologues)
- The Years
5
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Oscar Wilde
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Victorian but precursor.
Oxford, London, Paris, wife: Constance, book critic (comic)
Drama (90s):
- Lady Windermere’s Fan
- A Woman of no Importance
- An Ideal Husband (pol)
- The Importance of being earnest
John Douglas, prison:
- De. Profundis
6
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George Bernard Shaw
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No education, critic, plays, influenced by Nietzsche, socialism, Fabian society member.
Satirist (Vic values), women liberation
Pygmalion
7
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John Millington Synge
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Irish literary revival
Simple character escape with dream
- When the Moon has Set (atheist, nun)
