ENGL 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Free Verse, Sigmund Freud, High Modernism
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20thc literature some say 1848 with baudelaire some say turn of the century with philosophical ideas of the late 19th and 20th c. Freud pointed to the ways in which we don"t know ourselves: a movement of movements, (friedrich nietzsche, henri bergson, sigmund freud) mysteries of the human psyche the transvaluation of all values. Nietzsche"s death of god the rigid concepts of good and evil need to be overturned and redefined it is oppressive to our world if god is still alive, good is still the ultimate thing. Mad men versus one life to live have to be trained in and develop a taste for high art. Williams especially was a huge critic of modernism, even modernism as literary democracy b/c built on antagonism and continued drawing upon things gone unseen, challenging the status quo though he employed it: fragmented, alienated, mostly urban self. The love song of j. alfred prufrock (1917: by t. s.