Modernism Flashcards
Victorianism = …,… unity, positive …, freedom in … (… for …)
optimism; cultural; technological expansion; art; art for art’s sake
Victorianism was the … age for the British empire
golden
… becomes a reality because of … and the … of 1870
mass literacy; industrialization; Education Act
mass literacy generated a demand for … –> put writers in a position to become …
popular fiction; popular
education act of 1870: every child of a certain age range must … –> happens at same time that literature becomes … and ….
attend public schooling; accessible; affordable
changes in education led to changes in
society
popular artists … and … the middle class … values and expressed an essential skepticism of …
satirized; attacked; Victorian; National Exceptionalism
National Exceptionalism: idea that one country’s values are … in their … and … and ought to be …
special; place; time; spread
within 13 years of Victoria’s death, the English Empire … —> colonies in …, …, …, the …, and … ….
falls apart; Canada; New Zealand; India; the Caribbean; Africa; gain their independence
independent colonies: a new generation of “…” –> newly .., … taught to read and speak English and they were writing for … –> their lit was produced in …, fractures what it meant to be … (no longer one definition)
English voices; independent, foreign colonies; British publication; London; English
modernism is both in … and … antithetical to …
form; function; Victorianism
optimism, confidence, triumph were now out of step, …, out of … with modern reality
dated; sync
modernism brought about the destruction of “…” –> fixed … that for centuries people have bought into
master narratives; realities
master narrative examples (that were destroyed)
the .. family
the … family –> beginnings of … emerging
the righteousness of … –> they could be …
a well …
a …/….
… itself
…. (the best of what is … and …) –> it is …
the …
nuclear; patriarchal; equality; law; immoral; conducted state; church/god; reason; cultural; thought; said; individualized; self
The Zeitgeist (spirit of the age) –> …
Questions like:
what is …?
how does … function?
how do human beings interact with and exist in …? (due to …)
how do we assemble our … of thinking about …?
self-aware; time; history; history; mass literacy; fractured ways; time
common themes:
fracturing and fragmentation
Yeats –> wrote “…”
The Second Coming
the title for things fall apart comes from “the second coming” –> break between essential relationship between falcon and falconer
“things fall apart; the … cannot …”
center; hold
Eliot –> “these fragments I have …”
shored against my ruin
psychoanalysis: challenged the … notion that human beings are fundamentally …, …-… individuals
enlightenment; rational; decision-making
(psychoanalysis) we do things in reaction to … from the past
traumas
(psychoanalysis) Sigmund Freud speaks of time as a …
society has replaced its notion of … (NA just a … drive) –> at one point society had impulse for …, thirst and hunger for …, …, and …
schizophrenic patient; eros; sexual; life; living; loving; kindness
(psychoanalysis) eros replaced with …- a drive towards …, …, and …-… of the …, sense that nothing can … you, nothing good will happen to you again, and life will be …, losing basic … of life
thanatos; death; violence; ennui; boredom; soul; move; empty; pleasure
(psychoanalysis) death comes easier because of …
ennui
(psychoanalysis) … was the biggest shift from Victorianism to modernism
ennui
(psychoanalysis) Carl Jung: “the collective ..”
we aren’t .. –> studied schizophrenics all around the world, all had common … that weren’t informed by .., …, or …
unconscious; blank slates; themes; religion; culture; experiences
(psychoanalysis) all human beings share .. and …, aside from personal … drives
instincts; archetypes; unconscious
(psychoanalysis) …/…, …, …, … and …. manifest themselves in archetypes
hunger; thirst; sexuality; activity; reflection; creativity
(psychoanalysis) some of our archetypes: ego vs. shadow- things you don't wanna address ego- .., shadow- ... ego- old ..., shadow- the young ... ego- ... (...), shadow- .. (...) ego- ..., shadow- ... ego-...., shadow-.... ego-..., shadow- ... ego- ..., shadow-... ego-..., shadow-...
good mother; bad mother; wise man; trickster; anima; female; animus; male; meaning; absurdity; order; chaos; time; eternity; sacred; profane; light; dark
comparative mythology: .., …, the …, ….
collection of myths that appear in … and appears in other … that … them
flood; creative sacrifice; dying God; Titanomachy; major religions; religions; predate
development of comparative mythology challenged the … of … and … itself
challenges value of …, ….
“…”- F. Nietzsche
.. on rise as a result
uniqueness; Christianity; culture; fixed, unquestionable faith; Gott ist tot; sin
changes in thought led to changes in the … of thought –> …, …, …, … and …, etc.
physical manifestation; electricity; radio; film; airplane; automobile travel
the new advances caused that generation to break free of their capacity to
relate to their history
if the world is accelerating at a rate faster than it can be understood, then human beings are … from the … itself —> …
alienated; world; fragmentation
mass production of literature causes a rift between … and … art
high-brow; low-brow
high-brow art: …, unapologetically …
low-brow art: unapologetically …, …, doesn’t …
artsy; complex; accessible; simple last
more successful, lasting art (high-brow) becomes …, …, … and …
experimental; challenging; fragmented; avant-garde
Ezra Pound wrote … –> written in various …
paves way for all …
what art should do: “….!”–> departure from Victorianism and Romanticism
The Cantos; languages; modern writers; make it new!
Pound and Eliot pave way for …- a style of poetry that rejects the sentiment of … and the … nature of … poetry in favor of the employment of .., …
imagism; Romantic poetry; didactic; Victorian; stark, precise imagery
Eliot’s poetry in particular finds its emphasis in .., …, and … (means that it requires a certain level of …)
intertextuality; literary allusion; intellectualism
Eliot believed that poetry shouldn’t be for …, only those who ….
intertextuality: makes references to .. of the same caliber without explaining it –> .. poetry
everyone; understand it; literature; fragments
visual artists:
cubism-
surrealism-
fauvism-
Pablo Picasso; Rene Magritte; Henri Matisse
World War One (1914-1918)
Global Wars- “the war to …”
.. million Europeans sent, … million killed, … million missing, … million civilians killed (new)
end all wars; 60; 9; 8; 7
2 new innovations in modern warfare: … (e.g. …), … (designed for …-fighting …)
chemical warfare; yellow mustard gas; tank; cities; indiscriminately
