english instruction modernism literary period

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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 - Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas)

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 - Life as it was, sometimes depressing - simple life	- Realistic fiction - Always hope - showed everything, also discrimination

What is the biggest difference between modernism and realism

1. Realism is written realistically, modernism is not
2. Realism is more realistic than modernism
3. There are no differences
4. Realism isn't based on reality, only modernism is

important authors

Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound

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

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