EN 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Dialectic, The Waste Land, Time Dilation
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Always looking at dialectic / tension between . Big innovation = new kind of poetry. Shift between conventional and modern poetry measured by - Form for example, sonnet is a conventional form. 14 lines of poetry with set rhyme. 19th century: full of big changes in literature, core of this is big global shifts. The surprising juxtapositions and superimpositions of ideas never before. The shift to modernism: earlier ideas, beliefs, values, are reconstituted associated. Sometimes a retreat into the self brings to some very dark places. Literary studies: a shift away from textual analysis to self awareness of criticism. Breakdown of form, language, law and order, congruence.
