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The Influence of
Realism
Realism
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Realism allows for narrative attention to be lavished on
outwardly modest people, such as Gustave Flaubert's
Felicite in A Simple Heart or Leo Tolstoy's Ivan Ilyitch
(has his death foretold in The Death of Ivan Ilyitch)
characters born into middle class or peasantry, rather than
nobility
more direct precursor of Ros and Guil is narrator of Frydor
Dostoevsky's novella Notes from the Underground
Realism allowed for common people to be central
protagonists of great works
as 20th century proceeds, these common heroes develop
into antiheroes, like Yossarian from Joseph Heller's
Catch 22, who has little nobility or ability
Realism allows for narrative attention to be lavished on
outwardly modest people, such as Gustave Flaubert's
Felicite in A Simple Heart or Leo Tolstoy's Ivan Ilyitch
(has his death foretold in The Death of Ivan Ilyitch)
characters born into middle class or peasantry, rather than
nobility
more direct precursor of Ros and Guil is narrator of Frydor
Dostoevsky's novella Notes from the Underground
Realism allowed for common people to be central
protagonists of great works
as 20th century proceeds, these common heroes develop
into antiheroes, like Yossarian from Joseph Heller's
Catch 22, who has little nobility or ability
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The Influence of
Modernism
Modernism
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influence of modernism also notable, with characters such as
Kafka's Gregor Samsa (from The Metamorphosis), whose
interior monologue tries to reaffirm his place in his bourgeoise
family, but like Dostoevsky's underground man, is alienated
from his social world
works of T.S. Eliot, a foundational Modernist poet, also presages
central role of a Ros or a Guil
very young T.S. Eliot created middle aged protagonists in "The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" who comes to grip that his
youthful ambitions will never be realized
irony is even Hamlet's character hardly seizes the day, but is named,
has achieved dramatic and literary greatness
the main point for Prufrock, and for modern man in the grip of modern
condition, is that he lacks heroic status. "attendant" "easy fool"
comparison of minor figures in Hamlet is Eliot's narrator's way of
putting himself in the proverbial backseat
tracing Eliot's "attendant lord" from Shakespeare's minor characters
to Stoppard's central protagonists can be aided by understanding of
principles of modernism as a literary era
literary eras established in retrospect, fluidity between writers who
might be characterized as a realist, modernist, postmodern
dissatisfaction with one mode of literary art is succeeded by another
mistrust of appearances, or surfaces provides a critique of Realism
Realist desires to hold a mirror up and reflect as it is, modernist is
dissatisfied because of what lies beneath the surface
father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, mapped inner world of
human beings that include conscious and subconscious and psychic
structures of id, ego, and superego. superego influences identity,
acts as internal judge of one's actions and enforces civilizing
qualities that repress human's baser instincts
Modernist literature reflects the heavy influence of linguistic attributes
of Freudian thinking: dreams, jokes, slip of the tongue
modernist writer challenges narrative traditions, rather than use a
sequential flow to tell a story, they instead break up chronology
uses devices such as stream of consciousness, fragments,
experiences of epiphany (sudden realization of a profound
relevation
quote by modernist writer Virginia Woolf offers one way to understand
modernist rejection of literature that adheres to a chronological
sequencing of events to an identifiable narrative origin
experience not symmetrically arranged but diffused in both space
and time creates possibilities for writers to explore interior consciousness
tin a manner that has kinship with the artistic period of Impressionism
edges not sharply defined, flow from one description to another that
creates mental image
revelation comes not in chronological progression, but in pieces, as
Eliot expressed near the end of poem "The Waste Land" where the poem's
speaker claims as if the ruined civilization of the 20th century might find
salvation in collection of fragments available in the mind of the artist
ambition of modernism comes from another influential thinker, 19th
century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche
overarching complaint was inherent meekness of humanity in
current state of Christianity. well known antidote was for humans
to seize the will to power and realize the creation of the self
as the ubermensch (superman)
superman responds to a crisis in civilization, where humans are led
by religion to an unproductive and complacent attitude and retreat
to the values of the herd, by striving to create and define new values
forhumanity
in modernist terms, artist is seen as the creative force, task is one
which the world, shapes a new and vital reality for audience
some modernist art is descriptive of what the civilized world
lacks in its vital performance of life, attempts to be proscriptive
of how a new kind of understanding can lead to new ways of being
in the world that creates meaning for human existence
seen in a passage from Jame Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man, when the protagonist, arrogant scholar Stephen
Dedalus is ready to leave his home of Dublin and comforts of
influence of modernism also notable, with characters such as
Kafka's Gregor Samsa (from The Metamorphosis), whose
interior monologue tries to reaffirm his place in his bourgeoise
family, but like Dostoevsky's underground man, is alienated
from his social world
works of T.S. Eliot, a foundational Modernist poet, also presages
central role of a Ros or a Guil
very young T.S. Eliot created middle aged protagonists in "The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" who comes to grip that his
youthful ambitions will never be realized
irony is even Hamlet's character hardly seizes the day, but is named,
has achieved dramatic and literary greatness
the main point for Prufrock, and for modern man in the grip of modern
condition, is that he lacks heroic status. "attendant" "easy fool"
comparison of minor figures in Hamlet is Eliot's narrator's way of
putting himself in the proverbial backseat
tracing Eliot's "attendant lord" from Shakespeare's minor characters
to Stoppard's central protagonists can be aided by understanding of
principles of modernism as a literary era
literary eras established in retrospect, fluidity between writers who
might be characterized as a realist, modernist, postmodern
dissatisfaction with one mode of literary art is succeeded by another
mistrust of appearances, or surfaces provides a critique of Realism
Realist desires to hold a mirror up and reflect as it is, modernist is
dissatisfied because of what lies beneath the surface
father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, mapped inner world of
human beings that include conscious and subconscious and psychic
structures of id, ego, and superego. superego influences identity,
acts as internal judge of one's actions and enforces civilizing
qualities that repress human's baser instincts
Modernist literature reflects the heavy influence of linguistic attributes
of Freudian thinking: dreams, jokes, slip of the tongue
modernist writer challenges narrative traditions, rather than use a
sequential flow to tell a story, they instead break up chronology
uses devices such as stream of consciousness, fragments,
experiences of epiphany (sudden realization of a profound
relevation
quote by modernist writer Virginia Woolf offers one way to understand
modernist rejection of literature that adheres to a chronological
sequencing of events to an identifiable narrative origin
experience not symmetrically arranged but diffused in both space
and time creates possibilities for writers to explore interior consciousness
tin a manner that has kinship with the artistic period of Impressionism
edges not sharply defined, flow from one description to another that
creates mental image
revelation comes not in chronological progression, but in pieces, as
Eliot expressed near the end of poem "The Waste Land" where the poem's
speaker claims as if the ruined civilization of the 20th century might find
salvation in collection of fragments available in the mind of the artist
ambition of modernism comes from another influential thinker, 19th
century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche
overarching complaint was inherent meekness of humanity in
current state of Christianity. well known antidote was for humans
to seize the will to power and realize the creation of the self
as the ubermensch (superman)
superman responds to a crisis in civilization, where humans are led
by religion to an unproductive and complacent attitude and retreat
to the values of the herd, by striving to create and define new values
forhumanity
in modernist terms, artist is seen as the creative force, task is one
which the world, shapes a new and vital reality for audience
some modernist art is descriptive of what the civilized world
lacks in its vital performance of life, attempts to be proscriptive
of how a new kind of understanding can lead to new ways of being
in the world that creates meaning for human existence
seen in a passage from Jame Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man, when the protagonist, arrogant scholar Stephen
Dedalus is ready to leave his home of Dublin and comforts of
Catholicism with lofty ambitions
what follows further embeds his ambitions in a secular rather
than sacred origin, as he addressed his own father, whom
he equates to Daedalus in Greek Mythology (famous craftsman,
accomplice in slaying Minotaur, father of Icarus, who flew too
close to the sun and melted his wax wings)
when Joyce closes novel with Stephen's invocation "Oh father,
old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead"
artificer points to creative capacity of Daedalus
these qualities in modernism represent some major forces and
movements in the era
other artistic movements include dadaism (emphasized illogical
and used nonsensical and chance artistic creations to challlenge
the bourgeois, capitalistic status quo), and surrealism (sought to
express conditions of dream and subconscious in concrete images.
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