ENGL 2655 Lecture 7: notes lecture 7 ENGL
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English: modern literature, poetry of first world war. Mr bennett mrs brown and mrs dalloway (lecture) Virginia wolfe o focused on consciousness, inner essence, what makes character unique: modernist writer. In or about december 1910 human character changed : strange because we think of human character changing gradually, and this is very rapid, she is talking about social change. 1910 edwardian period ending, gerogian period beginning: change happens from top o. Einstein - new weird physics of 20th century that makes us question us understanding everything. Wolfe would have been informed of implications of this. Freud changes idea of what human character consists of - suggests existence of unconscious and emphasizes its importance. Continually at odds with ourselves - demands from society vs. instinctual demands. William james coined term stream of consciousness .
