ENGL10001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: T. S. Eliot, Theatricality, South African Class 19C 4-8-2
15 Jun 2018
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Modern and Contemporary Literature
Lecture One Week One
• Modernist rupture of 20th century
• Forster – bridge between older and modernist movement
• “taiski’s Rite of “pig
• Wide spaces, boulevards – typify modernity in the city – Paris – to make revolution
more difficult
• Theatricality of city life – street is a destination – to be seen/observe
• City as spectacle
• Boundaries between inside and outside breaking down
• Modernism – not a singular coherent theory – diffuse group – onset identified at
different time points
• E.g. 1910 – 30, after first world war – damage of machines and tech
• Growth – radial change – environ. And sensibilities
• Def. Stephen Spender – see slides ode oe aitious wrestle with universal
pediaet
• Eagleton - laguage ade stage
• Unfamiliarity – defamiliarsation, alienation – not all modernists feel terrified, some
exhilarated
• T.S Eliot, Woolf, Pound, Yeats, Joyce etc.
• Some characteristics – noise, dislocation and strangeness, doubt, abstraction,
dynamism, speed, fragmentation, change
• “houd’t e geealised hoee
• 20th C. phenomenon – if the hae a olletie aifesto its’ E Poud’s Make It Ne
• But not a clear distinction between Victorian and modern writers
• Eg. Had’s Jude Osue
• Religion and establishment replaced by speed, dynamism, newness
• Wilde anticipates modernism eg. Soul of man under socialism – laziness – excited by
machines – utopian society for wilde is lazy
• Forces of modernity used to fight older ideals
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