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Modern British andAmerican Literature England and

America are two

countries separatedby a common

language.

George BernardShaw

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Historical ContextDynamic exists between event and human

response.

World affects artisthe/she feelscompelled to create in order to respond

art Guernicamusic

literature

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EventArt form--MovementVietnam War-

60s music

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Hippie Generation

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Modern History Change from the set ways of

Victorian/Edwardian Ages

everything was based on rulesall aspects of life were governed

relationships

mealsdress

Created a FACADE

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Change Inventions

as life became easier with time-saving

devices, people had more time for

THINKING

which

leads to

QUESTIONS

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On or about December 1910, human

character changed. All human

relationships shiftedthose betweenmaster and servant, husband and wife,

parent and children. And when human

relations shift, there is at the same time achange in religion, conduct, politics and

literature. Virginia Woolf

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War!World War I- most pivotal event of 20th C

New innovations in weapons

mustard gas

machine guns

First time that destruction on such a major

scale was possible

blood- dimmed tide--Yeats

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The Great War and PettyPeace---H.G. WellsU.S. enters the war 1917

Armistice- Nov. 11, 1918Treaty of Versailles 1919

Foch-This is not a peace. This is an armisticefor twenty years

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The Irish RebellionUnrest over British rule

religious differences

Irish Catholics/ProtestantAnglicans

Easter 1916-Dublin-rebellionsquashed by Britishbecamemartyrs

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Irish NationalismSurged after Easter uprising

guerilla warfare

1921 Britain grantedindependence to Irish Free

Stateall of Ireland except sixProtestant counties in theprovince of Ulster in the North

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Make it New-Ezra PoundAfter the impact of World War I-

backlash in art world

The World no longer followed the

rules, so why should Art?

Artistic movements respond to traumawith creativity

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Change in Art

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The World Around

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Characteristics of ModernLiterature Experimental

Presents human experience in fragments

Reader needs to p iece it together

Art becomes part ic ipatory

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Characteristics (cont) Uses techniques of Naturalism/Realism

Realismdetails of everyday life

Naturalismexamines the social and

economic problems of the

working class

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Characteristics Use of Psychological Insights

Psychological Realism

Freudsubconscious / sexual motivation

Jung race memories/collective

subconscious

William Jamesstream of consciousnes

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Stream of Consciousness Human mind does not work in

chronological order

Jumps from the present-past-future Reality to an individual is not linear