Modernism -A03 Flashcards
What is modernist literature?
It marks a departure from convention - a way of expressing freedom by undermining literary tradition
What did Gustave Le Bon believe in?
Destruction of beliefs
Reemergence of nationalist beliefs
“Severe mental epidemic… nervous instability”
Who said this?
Max Nordau
What was Freud’s criticism?
“Most people don’t want freedom because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility”
Think of two Jungian criticisms which can be applied to modernism
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain”
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes”
Who coined the phrase ‘stream of consciousness’?
W James (1890)
What piece of art did Picasso create which is reminiscent of modernist literature?
When was this?
The Guernica
1937
“Attempts to create a vantage point from which the past and the future are equally visible”
Who said this?
O’Connor
Who’s concepts can be used for A03?
Jung Freud W James Max Nordau Gustave Le Bon
- these people were commentators of modernism and did not belong to an art form - they influenced the modernist era but did not participate in it through art
