Notes on Modernism
Other nodernism terms
Expressionism
Presented a wildly distorted and symbolic world to reflect the feelings and emotions of the character or author
Expressionism
Authors include Kafka, T.S. Eliot, Joyce, Ralph Ellison
Imagism
Rejected sentimentality and cloudy verbiage and aimed for new clarity in short lyrical poems. They believed images carry the poem. Meaning happens in the air.
Imagism
There were four basic rules of the movement: 1. use the common language of speech 2. use the exact word 3. images in poetry should be "hard and clear" 4. Write in free verse.
Imagism
Authors include Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, Hilda Doolittle
Imagism
Ran from about 1912-1917
Imagism
They were influenced by Japanese haiku, a form of short lyric verse that arose in the 16th century. The goal of a haiku was to capture a single impression of a natural object or scene within a particular season in 17 syllables in three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables.
Imagism
Poems include "A Lover" (1917), "Autumn" (1919), and "Opal" (1919), all by Amy Lowell
Magic Realism
Fabulous and fantastical events are included in a narrative that otherwise maintains objective realism
Magic Realism
Authors include Jorge Luis Borges Borges and Zora Neale Hurston (More specifically the scene with talking vultures in "Their Eyes were Watching God)
Minimalism
Extreme restriction of a work's contents to a bare minimum of necessary elements
Minimalism
Authors include Samuel Beckett, Ernest Hemingway, and the imagists
Modernism
A general term applied retrospectively to the wide range of experimental and avant-garde trends in the literature and other arts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America. The movement's literature is characterized chiefly by a rejection of 19th-century traditions and of their consensus between author and reader: conventions of realism
Expressionism
Presented a wildly distorted and symbolic world to reflect the feelings and emotions of the character or author
Expressionism
Authors include Kafka, T.S. Eliot, Joyce, Ralph Ellison
Imagism
Rejected sentimentality and cloudy verbiage and aimed for new clarity in short lyrical poems. They believed images carry the poem. Meaning happens in the air.
Imagism
There were four basic rules of the movement: 1. use the common language of speech 2. use the exact word 3. images in poetry should be "hard and clear" 4. Write in free verse.
Imagism
Authors include Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, Hilda Doolittle
Imagism
Ran from about 1912-1917
Imagism
They were influenced by Japanese haiku, a form of short lyric verse that arose in the 16th century. The goal of a haiku was to capture a single impression of a natural object or scene within a particular season in 17 syllables in three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables.
Imagism
Poems include "A Lover" (1917), "Autumn" (1919), and "Opal" (1919), all by Amy Lowell
Magic Realism
Fabulous and fantastical events are included in a narrative that otherwise maintains objective realism
Magic Realism
Authors include Jorge Luis Borges Borges and Zora Neale Hurston (More specifically the scene with talking vultures in "Their Eyes were Watching God)
Minimalism
Extreme restriction of a work's contents to a bare minimum of necessary elements
Minimalism
Authors include Samuel Beckett, Ernest Hemingway, and the imagists
Modernism
A general term applied retrospectively to the wide range of experimental and avant-garde trends in the literature and other arts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America. The movement's literature is characterized chiefly by a rejection of 19th-century traditions and of their consensus between author and reader: conventions of realism