paper no.7.a glossary of selected literary term :- modernism, post modernism
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A glossary of selected literary term :- modernism, post modernism, Ecocriticism
presented by
BHUNGANI CHINTAVANKUMAR N.M.A. (SEM -2)
Paper no:- Romantic Literature
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Smt. S. B. GARDI DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH MAHARAJA KRUSHANAKUMARSINHJI
BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY
What is Modernism?According to M.H.Abrams
“The term ‘Modernism’ is widely used to
identify new and distinctive features
in the
subjects, forms, concepts and style of
literature and other art in the early
decades of the
present century.”
“the term ‘modernism’ is widely used to identify
new and distinctive feature in the subject,
form, concept, and style of literature and other in
art in the early decades of the present century”
The Background of Modernism:Critics- society could not move forward in its present form.Progress of history and civilization was questioned.A series of movements…………..Prominent thinkers and precursors: Nietzsche Marx Freud Darwin Frazer
The social Background of Modernism:
The end of rural England.
Intellectualism.
Scientific revolution.
The Invasion of Psychology.
Marxist influence.
Literary Trends of Modern Period: Poetry• An Age of Innovation.
• An age of Disillusionment.
Prominent modern poets:Robert Bridges John Mansfield W.B. Yeats Rupert Brook
T.S. Eliot W.H. Auden Stephen Spender Dylan Thomas
Modern Novel:
• Its immense variety and complexity.• Realistic Portrayal of Contemporary Life.• Its Pessimistic tone.• Free Treatment of sex.• Its Incomplete sense.• Stream of consciousness technique.• Its seriousness.
Prominent Modern Novelists:H.G. Wells Joseph Conrad D.H. Lawrence
Aldous Huxley James Joyce Virginia Woolf
Modern Dramas:
• Naturalistic Prose Drama, dealing with predicament and problems of the generation.
• Signs of the rebirth of poetic drama.
• Celtic revival.
• Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
• T.S. Eliot’s practice and theory.
The Prominent Modern Dramatists:
T.S. Eliot Galsworthy
W.B. Yeats Sean O‘Casey
Literary Criticism of Modern Period:• New discoveries in Psychology, anthropology,
sociology, Economics have brought revolution in critical methods.
• Two dimensions in criticism.• Critics- distinguished University Professors.• After World War-l, traditional ideas of criticism were
broken.• Everything was sought to be explained in
psychological terms.• Strong opposition of biographical, historical,
sociological, comparative approach of conventional criticism.
Prominent Critical Theories:
• Semiotics.• Linguistics in Literary Criticism.• Russian Formalism.• Objective Correlativity.• New Criticism.• Language of Paradox.• Archetypal Criticism.
Postmodernism• The term “postmodernism” first entered the philosophical lexicon in 1979, with the publication of The Postmodern Condition by Jean-François Lyotard.
• It’s a reaction against the philosophical assumptions, values, and intellectual worldview of the modern period of western history.
• Postmodernism questions everything rationalist European philosophy held to be true.
Influences Of Postmodernism
•• Art•• Technology•• “Real” object•• Fashion
Postmodernism• After World war 2 • Reaction towards the new status of the Word. • Reaction against realism & modernism.• “High art”, “High Culture” “Everyday Life”.• Language as a reflection of reality.• Postmodernism is Anti art. • Postmodernism removes distinction Between
High– Law, Class – Mass.
Popular Culture There are four main types of popular
culture analyses :
• Production analysis
• Textual analysis
• Audience analysis
• Historical analysis
CONCLUSION Here we are understand A glossary of selected literary term :- modernism, post modernism, Ecocriticism in detail but in literary criticism many types of term which we are study .this all term are based of criticism if we study literary criticism we have to understand this all terms like. new criticism , Diaspora , post colonial , feminist criticism , psychoanalytic criticism , new historicism ,queer theory , structuralism , etc.this all term connected with each other .
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