ENGL 359 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Surrealism, Atomic Theory, Postmodern Architecture
12 Jan 2015
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End discover that narrator is dead. Atomic theory: you become a part of something from using it often. Type of texts relate to each other. Swift: satire, parody, not fiction, political treaties, performance of being a factual document. Joyce and brennan: realism, every day, urban, critical realism. Bowen and o"faolain: critical realism, all writing short stories (moments in characters" lives) small lives, marginalized people submerged population groups. Fragmentation fragments of people, places, conversation, and language within short stories. Emerging highlight points in irish literature dominant concerns of irish lit. Modernism (artistic/literary movement) reaction against modernity. Enlightenment project: reason, natural sciences vs. superstition, religion. Modernism is a reaction against that idea. World war i destroy idea of progress (humanity getting better) Undermining of a belief in progress/ultimate good of humanity. Bradbury and mcfarlane: art of a rapidly modernizing world (1976) Postmodern fiction is experimental in the same was as modernism.
