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INTRODUCTION TO THE MODERN PERIOD THE POST – VICTORIAN EXPERIMENTAL NOVEL   The decline of England as the world’s Introduction greatest power. to Modernism The position of the USA The German menace...

INTRODUCTION TO THE MODERN PERIOD THE POST – VICTORIAN EXPERIMENTAL NOVEL   The decline of England as the world’s Introduction greatest power. to Modernism The position of the USA The German menace  The development of the modern social security system  The first and the second World Wars Major Historical  In the social sphere knowledge Events confirmed the moral unease and destroyed faith.  Christian ceremonies were considered as sophisticated savage rituals.  The chaotic world of the human being. Introduction What is Man? to Modernism To Freud: a biological phenomenon, a prey to instinctual desires. To Darwin: a part of nature in its Man – A chaotic incessant process of the evolution of species. being To Marx: the outcome of economic and social forces The Christian notion: a child of sin who belongs at once to the natural and to the transcendental world. Introduction  In politics: the two World Wars, Fascism, to Communism, Hiroshima, Vietnam, the Cold Modernism War, the “iron curtain”, the fall of the Berlin wall, Bosnia and Kosovo.  In sociology: drugs, AIDS, co-habitation, gay and lesbian societies, unisex marriage and parentage etc. A summing up  In economy: supermarkets, globalization, of the major consumer society, VISA Card, EURO, NGO- historical events s.  In psychology: Freud  In technology and science: space flights, cosmic exploring stations, electronics, global warming, pollution, ecological disaster, ozone hole, cell phones, cloning, viagra. Introduction to “…The ancient falls Modernism differently from of old; The moment of importance comes not here but Virginia Woolf there… quoted in Modern Fiction Let us not take it for 1919 granted that life exists more fully in what it is commonly thought big than in what is commonly called small”. Introduction ‘Modernism is the break to from the tradition with Modernism the focus on radicalism, primitivism and experimentation’ Mode The two rnism approaches to the definition of Modernism Negative: Positive: the chaotic man and Freedom universe in writing Introduction to The need for a total change Modernism (radicalism). The focus on the primitive symbols and motives as Definition of Modernism devices for inspiration. Experimentation: (different writers - new tendencies).  The Post – It tended to be shorter than Victorian Experimental the Victorian novel. Novel The reduction was a result: a) of a quickening in the pace Characteristics of the of living experimental b) of the influence of the novel compressed French fiction of Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant. The change in content and mood 1. Swift-moving Romances (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Post – Victorian 2. Satirical Novels Experimental  Samuel Butler Novel Erewhon, and The Way of all Flesh 3. Naturalism and the English Characteristics of the novel experimental  Definition of Naturalism: novel Man’s destiny is predetermined by the biological heritage and the environment.  Thomas Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd, Tess of d’Urbervilles The Post – 1. The use of new technique Victorian  the stream of consciousness technique Experimental (aims at presenting through peripheral Novel details the immediate impression derived from senses without analysis or synthesis, the impression as seen or felt subjectively in a single fleeting moment). 2. Purpose of the novel (the experimental novel shifts the focus from characters, Characteristics of the experimental who undertake to do things, on the very novel existence of human beings). 3. Withering away of external plot (the shift from outside events to the inner life). 4. Absence of the hero. 5. Complexity. 6. Irrationality