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modernism literary period

Lyra, Diede, Romi, Senna

what are we going to talk about:

• What is modernism and what was happening?
• Genres, Subjects and writing styles
• To what was modernism a reaction
• Authors 

What do you know about
modernism already?

what is modernism?

• 1910-1940
• WW1
• Democratization and industrialization
• realism
• individualism
• inner events
• stream-of-conciousness method
• exploring new ideas
• better place

when was the modernism literary period?

1. 1930-1940
2. 1942-1980
3. 1910-1940
4. 1900-1950

what was important in modernism?

1. the situation itself
2. the emotions characters felt during the situation

writing styles

• Following one individual
• Perspective 
• Poetry: free verse
• rejects traditional ideas
• inner monologues
• prose

genres

• Fantasy and fiction (Hobbit, Lord of the rings)
• Drama

subjects

• A lot going on (WW1, politics, industrial developments)
• Changing and dealing with the world
• Discrimination (Gertrude Stein)

what were the main genres in modernism?

1. Discrimination, fantasy and fiction
2. Fantasy and fiction, drama
3. Drama, discrimination
4. science-fiction, drama

differences between realism and modernism

Realism	Modernism
- Realistic - Here and now - Life as it was, sometimes depressing - simple life	- Realistic fiction - Future - Always hope - showed everything, also discrimination

What was modernism a reaction to?

• realism
•  differences and similarities
• both realistic heroes

important autors

Virginia Woolf

• Born in London, 1882
• writer and feminist
• Mrs Dalloway
• Bold Writer
• "Why can't women be independent?"

Ezra Pound

• Born in Hailey, 1885
• London, Paris and Italy
• "In a station of the Metro"
• Influence on other writers

When was Mrs. Dalloway published?

1. 1929
2. 1925
3. 1923