AMERİCAN MODERNISM
-American modernism, like modernism in general,
is a trend of thought that affirms the power of human beings to create,
improve, and reshape their environment, with the aid of scientific knowledge,
technology and practical experimentation, and is thus in its essence
both progressive and optimistic.
-David Harvey’s definition of modernism, in his book ‘The
Condition Of Postmodernity’ is grunded in and evolves from Baudelaire’s
essay.
FRAGMENTATİON
-Related to the theme of destruction is the theme of
fragmentation. Fragmentation in modernist literature is thematic, as well as
formal. Plot, characters, theme, images, and narrative form itself are broken.
Take, for instance, T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," which depicts a
modern waste land of crumbled cities.
SOCİAL EVİLS
-Modernist novels did not treat lightly topics about
social woes, war and poverty. John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath"
frankly depicts families plagued by economic hardship and strife, contradicting
idyllic depictions of American life represented elsewhere in literature.
-Modernist novels also reflect a frank awareness of
societal ills and of man's capacity for cruelty. Ernest Hemingway's anti-heroic
war tales depicted the bloodiness of the battlefields, as he dealt frankly with
the horrors of war.
-The romantısm was playing important role for to taking
shape of America.
-There is a important material for American modernism ;
“DEHUMANİZATİON OF İNDUSTRİALİZATİON”
-And three points are important; Emotional, Passional and İrrational.
-The Artists should be anarchist and intelligent.
-Edgar Allan Poe; “ghosts, Fairies, Witches, Demons”.
-And three points are important; Emotional, Passional and İrrational.
-The Artists should be anarchist and intelligent.
-Edgar Allan Poe; “ghosts, Fairies, Witches, Demons”.
-The Artists should be philosopher and the destiny not
interested them.
-The existence of God is seeking in nature.
-The Modernism is reject of materialism.
-The existence of God is seeking in nature.
-The Modernism is reject of materialism.
MODERN LİTERATURE
USA:
-PROSE: Hemingway, Faulkner,
Fitzgerald, Katherine Anne Porter, Dashiell Hammett, late Henry James, Paul
Laurence Dunbar, Zora Neale Hurston, Djuna Barnes, Patricia Highsmith, Jean
Toomer.
-“Modernist prose fiction marked by symbolism, narrative
disruption, internalization of meaning, stream-of-consciousness”
-POETRY : Ezra Pound, T.S.
Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, H.D., Langston Hughes
-Modernist poetry marked by free verse and freer verse
with formal variations, symbolism, internalization of meaning or personal
symbolism.
ERCAN İLHAN
(ENGLISH
LETTER AND LİTERATURE)
08.12.2014
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