Overview + general quotes Flashcards
Ezra Pound
‘Make it new’ - first appeared in a collection of essays in 1934, essays about translation
Virginia Woolf
‘On or about December 1910 human character changed’
Mina Loy
Die in the Past/ Live in the Future’
Modernist characteristics
calls to throw off convention
new scientific discoveries - discovery of matter in Physics, need to question our perception of solidity.
criticism of the Bible.
WWI.
suffrage 1928
universal male vote 1918
Russian revolution
rise of psychology, new philosophical developments.
formal experimentation
modernist experience can’t be articulated in previous forms.
new poetic lang/ diction
fiction - follows inwards, focuses on the psychological
subject matter = modernity
all react differently, some celebrate it, some are ambivalent and some are hostile
self-awareness in modernist rejection of the past
Nietzsche, ‘The Death of God’
lack of certainty was taken up modernists
development of existentialism
cult of the superman
‘ “Where has God gone?” he cried. “I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I.” ‘
James Joyce, The Portrait…
‘I will not serve that in which I no longer believe’
echoes Lucifer
call for experimentalism / transgression
Virginia Woolf, ‘Professions for Women’
‘Had I not killed her she would have killed me. She would have plucked the heart out of my writing.’ - the angel in the house
D.H. Lawrence, ‘Why the Novel Matters’
echoes of Nietzsche
‘I don’t believe in any dazzling revelation, or in any supreme Word … We should ask for no absolutes, or absolute’
James Joyce, ‘Ulysses’
’ “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” ‘
Marinetti
Italian Futurist - embrace the Machine, speed, violence, ‘beauty of speed’
Ford Madox Ford
‘he is not a proper man who will not look in the face his day and his time’
Michael North, ‘The History of the New’
re-use of the phrase, link between romanticist and modernist writers
Harold Bloom
the ‘anxiety of influence’
Dominic Head, The Modernist Short Story
Short story is a distinctly modernist form
‘Distilled essence of the modernist novel’
