MODERNISM

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MODERNISM
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• Modernism

• Modernism is a rejection of the values of the
  Enlightenment and the neoclassicist movement.
• Where the neoclassicists emphasized objective
  truth through reason, the modernists value
  subjective truth and emotion.
• This alternative value system leads to a
  rearrangement of classic forms. This can be seen
  through the restructuring of the narrative
  chronology in The Sound and the Fury.

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• Modernism

The overall structure of The Sound and the Fury
is what makes it unique. Faulkner plays with
time to create a pastiche. An original portrait
of a family is the result.
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• Modernism

Juxtaposition of themes, images, events, and
anecdotes all add to the overall impression
created by the work.
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• Modernism

Faulkner takes significant events in the course
of the Compson familys history, and allows for
multiple tellings from different points of view.
The events are seen through the lens of present
immediacy, and through rememberance and
reflection.
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• Modernism

Like the structural differences in the
composition of a painting The Sound and the Fury
is a composite of familiar things arranged in a
new way.
 
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• Modernism

These are two different representations of the
same subject matter. Nusch Eluard was poet Paul
Eluards wife and the subsequent subject of Man
Rays photograph, and Pablo Picassos painting.
Modernism does not prescribe a certain form only
that the form be new.
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• Modernism

These are two different representations of the
same subject matter. This is poet Paul Eluard.
New insights into reality can be created by
viewing familiar things through a different
perspective.
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• Modernism

Art is a lie which helps us see the truth.
Pablo Picasso