EN266 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Dada
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These fragments i have shored into my ruins . I had a world, and it slipped away from me. The war blew up more than the bodies of men it blew ideas away . Economic tailspin, political turmoil, architecture in ruins, farming in tatters, food supplies threatened. Ts eliot these fragments i have shored against my ruins . History is nightmare, from which i"m trying to awake . Have to begin again, every concept has been debased, denigrated. Brown fogs brown winds had descended over europe. Wanted to overturn familiar modes of representation, interrogate assumptions and social norms. Articulate new sensibilities, ways of thinking, ways of seeing and being. Electricity, urbanization, increased speed of movement (transportation), automobiles, assembly lines, banking, visual media (photography) Era of avant-garde movements (dadaism, futurism, imagism, Wallace stevens gets at the same thing: 13 ways of looking at a black bird. One perspective is not enough, not even remotely good or acceptable.
