DIVISION TENDIVISION TENMODERNISM AND OTHER TRENDSMODERNISM AND OTHER TRENDS

Ⅰ. General Introduction

Ⅱ. Contemporary Western Literature Before 1945

Ⅲ. Literature and Philosophy Since 1945

Ⅳ. Art and Music

General IntroductionGeneral Introduction

1. Modernism Defined

2. Historical Context

3. Progress in Science

4. New Ideas and Thoughts

New Ideas and ThoughtsNew Ideas and Thoughts

a. The Unconscious

b. Id, Ego, Superego

c. Oedipus Complex

Contemporary Western Literature Contemporary Western Literature Before 1945Before 1945

1. English Literature

2. Irish Literature

3. American Literature

4. German Literature

5. French Literature

6. Russian and Soviet Literature

a. Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)a. Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)

﹡ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)

﹡ Four Quartets (1944)

﹡ The Waste Land (1922)

b. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

﹡Lord Jim (1900)—one of his well-known novels

﹡He wrote mostly of sea.

﹡He was concerned with men under stress.

﹡His novels were marked by close examination of human

motives and moral values.

c. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

﹡ Mrs. Daloway (1925)

﹡ To the Lighthouse (1927)

﹡ The Mark on the Wall

d. David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930)

﹡ Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928)

﹡ Sons and Lovers (1913)

﹡ The Rainbow (1915)

﹡ Women in Love (1920)

﹡ The Lost Girl (1920)

a. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)a. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

﹡ The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1889)

﹡ Responsibilities (1914)

﹡The Tower (1928)

﹡The Winding Stair and Last Poems (1940)

b. James Joyce (1882-1941)

Announcement of the initial publication of Ulysses.

﹡ Dubliners (1914)

﹡ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

﹡ Ulysses (1922)

﹡ Finnegans Wake (1939)

a. Ezra Pound (1885-1972)a. Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

﹡ a leading figure of the Imagist movement

﹡ translating some poems of classical Chinese poems

﹡ his study of the Japanese haiku

b. William Faulkner (1897-1962)

﹡ The Sound and The Fury (1929)

﹡ As I Lay Dying (1930)

c. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

﹡ The Sun Also Rises (1926)

﹡ A Farewell to Arms (1929)

﹡ For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

﹡ The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

Hemingway in 1939 Ernest Hemingway, c. 1900

Ernest Hemingway in his World War I uniform

Thomas Mann (1875-1955)Thomas Mann (1875-1955)

﹡ The Buddenbrooks (1900)

﹡ The Magic Mountain (1924)

a. André Gide (1869-1951)a. André Gide (1869-1951)

﹡ The Counterfeiters (1925)

b. Marcel Proust (1871-1922)

﹡ A la recherche du temps perdu

(Remembrance of Things Past)

c. Albert Camus (1913-1960)

﹡ The Stranger (1942)

a. Maksim Gorky (1868-1936)a. Maksim Gorky (1868-1936)

﹡ Mother

﹡ Childhood (1912)

﹡ My Apprenticeship (1915)

﹡ My University (1923)

b. Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984)

﹡ The Quiet Don

1. Angry Young Men in England1. Angry Young Men in England

a. Kingsley Amis (1922- )

b. John Osborne (1929- )

﹡ Lucky Jim (1954)

﹡ Look Back in Anger (1956)

2. Beat Generation in America2. Beat Generation in America

a. Allen Ginsberg (1926- ) b. Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)

Ginsberg (right) with life-long friend Gregory Corso

﹡ Howl (1956) ﹡ On the Road (1957)

3. Nouveau Roman (New Novel)3. Nouveau Roman (New Novel)

a. Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922- )

b. Nathalie Sarraute (1902- )

﹡ The Erasers (1953)

﹡ La Jalousie (1957)

﹡ Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

﹡ Portrait of A Man Unknown (1947)

4. Existentialism4. Existentialism

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

﹡ Being and Nothingness (1943)

﹡ Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960)

﹡ Nausea (1938)

﹡ The wall (1938)

﹡ The Flies (1943)

﹡ No Exit (1944)

5. The Theatre of the Absurd5. The Theatre of the Absurd

a. Samuel Beckett (1906- )

b. Eugène Ionesco (1912- )

﹡ Waiting for Godot (1952)

﹡ The Bald Prima Donna (1950)

﹡ Rhinocerous (1960)

6. Black Humor6. Black Humor

Joseph Heller (1923- )

﹡ Catch-22 (1961)

Art and MusicArt and Music

1. Art

2. Sculpture

3. Music

Art Art

a. Fauvism

b. Expressionism

c. Cubism

d. Futurism

e. Dadaism

f. Surrealism

g. Abstract Expressionism

ⅰⅰ. Henri Matisse (1869-1954). Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

The Joy of Life Harmony in Red

ⅱ. André Derain (1880-1954)

The Turning Road, L´Estaque (1906), The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Charing Cross Bridge, London (1906), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

ⅰⅰ.. Emil Nolde (1867-1956)Emil Nolde (1867-1956)

Emil Nolde The Prophet, woodcut, 1912

Christ Among the Children

ⅱ. George Grosz (1893-1959)

Punishment

ⅲ. Max Beckmann (1884-1950)

Max Beckmann Self-portrait with Horn, 1938-1940

The Dream

ⅳ. Paul Klee (1879-1940)

Twittering Birds

ⅴ. Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

In his own words, "Composition VII" was the most complex piece he ever painted (Kandinsky 1913)

ⅰⅰ.. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Three Musicians (1921), Museum of Modern Art

Guernica

Three Dancers

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), Museum of Modern Art, New York

Accordionist

ⅱ. Georges Braque

Violin and Candlestick, Paris, spring 1910, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916)Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916)

Umberto Boccioni self-portrait

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913 bronze by Umberto Boccioni (depicted on the reverse of the Italian 20 cent euro coin)

The City Rises by Umberto Boccioni

ⅰⅰ.. Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

The Bride Mona Lisa

ⅱ. Max Ernest (1891-1976)

Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning in 1948

Max Ernst, Europe After the Rain II, (1940-1942)

Max Ernst, L'Ange du Foyer, (1937)

Max Ernst, Ubu Imperator, (1921), Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

ⅰⅰ.. Salvador Dali (1904- )Salvador Dali (1904- )

Persistence of Memory

ⅱ. Joan Miró (1893- )

Joan Miró, The Tilled Field, (1923-1924), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. This early painting of a complex of objects and figures, and arrangements of sexually active characters; was Miro's first Surrealist masterpiece.

La Leçon de Ski

Jackson PollockJackson Pollock

Pollock's One: Number 31, 1950 occupies an entire wall by itself at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City

No. 5, 1948

a. Henry Moore (1898- )a. Henry Moore (1898- )

Hill Arches, (1972-73) bronze, at the National Gallery of Australia.

This figure (1951) outside the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, demonstrates the later trends in Moore's works.

b. Constantine Brancusi (1876-1957)

The Kiss, 1908

a. Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)a. Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

﹡ Violin Concerto, Op. 36

﹡ String Quartet, Op. 37

﹡ Piano Concerto, Op. 42

﹡ A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46

b. Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

﹡ The Rite of Spring

﹡ The Firebird

c. Béla Bartók (1881-1945)

﹡ Piano Concerto No. 3

﹡ Concerto for Orchestra

d. Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1973)

﹡ Symphony No.1 in F minor, Op. 10

﹡ Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47

﹡ Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60

﹡ Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op.93