ENG140Y5 Lecture Notes - Dada, Technological Change, Post-Impressionism
Document Summary
Literature- representative novels, novellas, poems short stories and plays. The first half of this course covers (roughly) the period 1900-1950. This period is sometimes called the modernist period" in literary history. Literature from 1900-1950 is sometimes called modernist literature". Modernist literature is literature produced in the western world (and sometimes beyond) between about 1900-1950. Scholars debated that actual dates of modernism and there is much disagreement about it"s boundaries and nature: 1880-1970. Modernism is a convenient term to refer to writing produced during the first half of the 20th century. Many characteristics of modernism predate 1900 and many of its characteristics are present in contemporary literature: its boundaries are porous and arbitrary. A revolutionary response to the cultural conditions of the. 19th century age of domination of the natural world. 20th century age of waning european supremacy (questioning) 20th century age of growing challenge to traditional gender roles. 20th century age of increasing conflict with nature.
