MODERNISM NOTES 2/25- 2/26

•Beginning of 1900s-1965
•The idea that we are moving forward and not looking back.
•set in motion through a serious of shocks (WW1,
•Focuses on inner self and consciousness
•romanticism were high art and modernism was low art.
•"stick it to the man!"

HARLEM RENAISSANCE

2/26 notes
•People who were never listened to before now have a voice.
•Ezerd pound
•T.S Eliot- born in America and moved to England, wrote in modern style, he layered meaning,

The lost generation: spiritual and existential hangover from WW1; artists tried to find what was beautiful in the world after the war. earnest Hemingway
They turned the minds eye inward and attempted to record their thoughts as they happened.

They didn't believe in a higher being controlling all that happens on earth.

Unreliable narrator- thoughts of the mind as it happens.

Stream of consciousness- reflects authors attempt to capture what's happening inside our minds.