Lesson 3: Naturalism and Modernism

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Lesson 3:

Naturalism and Modernism

What do you remember from last week?

Naturalism

Mankind is determined by two kinds of natural forces: heredity and environment. They inherit their personal traits and compulsive instincts and are subject to the social and economic forces of family, class, milieu and society. The stories often end in tragedy, because the protagonist disintegrates or is wiped out.

Nowadays this is common where modern applied chemistry asserts its place, also in backstories of some games and wherever and however crimestories are told.

From the 1870s

Classic works in English: Frank Norris - McTeague, Stephen Crane - Red Badge of Courage, Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie

Modernism

Playing with the narrator (strangely limited 3rd person, untrustworthy 1st person, shifting narrators), experiments in the representation of time, consciousness – memory, unconsciousness, perception - rather than plot events - are the subject. It has popularized techniques such as the stream of consciousness and free indirect speech. Originality and avant-garde also became a requirements.

It is seen in dream sequences, hallucinations and action sequences in movies

From the 1900s

Classic works in English: Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway, James Joyce – Ulysses, T.S. Eliot – The Waste Land

In which literary movement does 'nature' play a big role?

1. Realism
2. Naturalism
3. Romanticism
4. Modernism

Which literary movement can be summed up as 'Thanks for living my dream?'

1. Realism
2. Naturalism
3. Romanticism
4. Epic-heroic

Which literary movement can be recognised in most Sitcoms?

1. Realism
2. Naturalism
3. Romanticism
4. Epic-heroic

Which literary movement can be recognised in 'dream sequences'?

1. Modernism
2. Naturalism
3. Romanticism
4. Epic-heroic

In which literary movement does the story usually end in tragedy?

1. Realism
2. Naturalism
3. Romanticism
4. Epic-heroic