English 3554E Lecture : full course lecture notes.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 3554E
• Professor: Alison Lee

Document Summary

History issue of historical consciousness very important to writers in 1st half of century, differently important in 2nd half. Ezra pound impact on the waste land: guiding principal: make new cutting off from history, new lit. , new form Many embraced pound s principal, many held on to victorian et other historical backgrounds. What is the function of lit. after the holocaust, how do you write after. make it new! 1st half, there s a tension between wanting to break from tradition and continue tradition . not one thing that describes modernism. Idea of the city urban enviro. Movement from country to city (london, dublin: london itself becomes a sort of character, a symbol of the social body, what is socially acceptable and inacceptable is played out in how london is described, etc . Powerful, economic force under rule of victoria. After her death things began to go downhill.