English Literature | Modernism: historical/cultural background and new literary techniques

Modernism is a cultural, phylosophical and artistic movement that develops in the first half of the 20th century. It is influenced by an historical, political and econpmical background that shatters the certainties of the human being: the two World Wars, the rise of totalitarianisms, the depression and the increasing unemployment are only some of the major dramatic events of the time. While Ireland and suffragettes fought for their rights, intellectuals suffer from an existencial disorientation, the disgrefation of their identity and an individual alienation. Literarure is obviously influenced by this crisis and develops new "interior plots", focused on the psychological side of the human being, instead of "exterior plots", based on action. New techniques like the stream of consciousness, the free association and the interior monologue are used by the authors of the time, like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. -------------------------- Playlist English Literature:    • English Literature | The rise of the novel...   Hashtag: #englishliterature #literature #literaryhelp #18thcentury #18th #modernism #books #reading #bookstagram #book #poetry #library ------------------------- SOCIAL MEDIA and CONTACTS: Instagram: @sara_albanese_ita - https://bit.ly/2HatMB0 Facebook: Scripta Manent - Sara Albanese - https://bit.ly/2AFLHKj Twitter: @SaraAlbanese_IT - https://bit.ly/2RHUsNr Official Website: Sara Albanese - https://bit.ly/2M4K510 E-Mail: admaioratutor@gmail.com -------------------------- For DONATIONS to Ad Maiora with PAYPAL (admaioratutor@gmail.com): https://www.paypal.me/albanesesara -------------------------- 🔔Subscribe to Ad Maiora🔔 https://shorturl.at/coqS6 Make sure to enable ALL push notifications! -------------------------- Chi sono: Sara Albanese, nata a Treviso nel 1982, si è laureata presso la Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere dell’Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, diventando poi Docente di Lingua e Letteratura Tedesca ed Inglese, scrittrice, traduttrice e mediatrice linguistica. Ad Maiora: corsi compattati, approccio alle lingue stranieri, approfondimenti letterari, interpretazioni filosofiche, consigli per affrontare esami universitari e di scuola superiore.