30 Questions
According to Freud, subjective reality is based on what?
Basic drives and instincts
Who was a major influence on logical positivism and a forerunner of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity?
Ernst Mach
Which philosopher argued that the mind begins as a blank slate?
John Locke
Who combined Freud's description of subjective states with the idea of the collective unconscious?
Carl Jung
According to Jung, human impulses toward breaking social norms are derived from what?
The essential nature of the human animal
Who emphasized the difference between scientific clock time and the direct, subjective, human experience of time?
Henri Bergson
Which philosopher placed a high value on intuition and the life force?
Henri Bergson
Which literary movement is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing in both poetry and prose fiction writing?
Modernism
Who famously said 'Make it new' as a maxim for modernist literature?
Ezra Pound
What historical event led to a reassessment of prevailing assumptions about society and influenced much modernist writing?
The First World War
According to Mary Ann Gillies, what do the literary themes of modernism share?
A conscious break with the past
What influenced early Modernist literature according to the text?
The theories of both Sigmund Freud and Ernst Mach
Who argued that the mind had a fundamental structure and that subjective experience was based on the interplay of parts of the mind?
Ernst Mach
In what time period did literary modernism originate?
Late 19th and early 20th centuries
Who is considered an important literary precursor of modernism?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Which poet founded the Imagist movement, giving modernism its early start in the 20th century?
Ezra Pound
What event marked the end of the initial utopian spirit of some modernists?
The outbreak of World War I
What literary technique did modernist writers use to explore the darker aspects of human nature?
Stream-of-consciousness
Which artistic movement is NOT considered a part of modernism?
Impressionism
What marked the beginning of the modernist literary movement, according to some interpretations?
The founding of the Imagist movement
What did early modernist writers develop to expose the irrationality at the roots of a supposedly rational world?
All of the above
Which author is known for their plain-spoken prose style and emphasis on psychological insight into characters?
Sherwood Anderson
Who is described as a major modernist writer whose strategies employed in their novel Ulysses have come to epitomize modernism's approach to fiction?
James Joyce
Which artist is known for their atonal ending of the Second String Quartet in 1908?
Arnold Schoenberg
Who is known for their Expressionist paintings and the founding of the Expressionist Blue Rider group in Munich in 1911?
Wassily Kandinsky
Which art movement rose during the early 20th century and introduced cubism?
Fauvism
Which poet described James Joyce's technique in Ulysses as a way of controlling and ordering the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history?
T.S. Eliot
Which poet's work, The Waste Land, mirrors 'the futility and anarchy' in its fragmented structure and absence of an obvious central, unifying narrative?
T.S. Eliot
Which generation of Italian poets embodies modernism and broke with the tradition of Giosuè Carducci, Giovanni Pascoli, and Gabriele D'Annunzio?
All of the above
Which poet incorporates Freudian concepts of psychoanalysis in their work?
Umberto Saba
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