Diapositiva 1

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VICTORIAN AGE
The name derives from queen Victoria ( 1837-1901)

The first part from 1837 to 1860 was
characterised from the industrial revolution, the
second part from 1860 from about 1900 was
characterized from the expansion of the English
colonialism
Positive aspects
Negative aspects

• poverty
• injustice and social unrest

• Progress
• Stability
• Great social reforms
• Colonial empire
• Important scientific discover

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MEAN FEATURES OF VICTORIAN LITERATURE

• omniscient third person narrator
• most of the times the protagonist speaks with
  the same voice of the author
• narrator is always visible both in third person
  and in first person narrations
• complicate and long story line
• linear time
• narrative structure
• Educational purpose

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THE MODERN AGE
Modernism is an aesthetics movements that goes
from 1890 to 1930.
It may be considered a rejection against the
Victorian Age because there is a radical
transformation in the way in which people see the
World, so there is a different concept of life.

• IMPORTANT WRITERS OF MODERN AGE
• James Joyce
• T. S. Eliot
• Ezra Pound
• Virginia Woolf
• Ford Madox Ford
• Francis Scott Fitzgerald
• Ernest Hemingway
• Henry Roth
• Wyndham Lewis
• Laura Riding
• Hilda Doolittle
• Gertrude Stein

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Modernis mean features

1. An emphasis on impressionism and subjectivity in
   writing an emphasis on how seeing takes place,
   rather than on what is perceived. An example of
   this would be stream-of-consciousness writing.
2. A movement away from the apparent objectivity
   provided by omniscient third-person narrators,
   fixed narrative points of view, and clear-cut
   moral positions. Faulkner's multiply-narrated
   stories are an example of this aspect of
   modernism.
3. A blurring of distinctions between genres, so
   that poetry seems more documentary and prose
   seems more poetic.
4. An emphasis on fragmented forms, discontinuous
   narratives, and random-seeming collages of
   different materials.
5. A tendency toward reflexivity, or
   self-consciousness, about the production of the
   work of art, so that each piece calls attention
   to its own status as a production, as something
   constructed and consumed in particular ways.
6. A rejection of elaborate formal aesthetics in
   favor of minimalist designs and a rejection, in
   large part, of formal aesthetic theories, in
   favor of spontaneity and discovery in creation.
7. A rejection of the distinction between "high" and
   "low" or popular culture, both in choice of
   materials used to produce art and in methods of
   displaying, distributing, and consuming art.

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Mrs Dalloway

• She breaks with all Victorian standards of novel
• no story divides into chapter
• no story line
• The sense of action is provided by the passage of
  time, heralded by clocks chiming and BigBen
  striking.
• The protagonist moves the novel trought her
  thoughts
• confined to a single day in London
• no linearity of the story
• The narrator uses interior monologue

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Ulysses

• Interior monologue
• Minimum plot
• Poetical language
• Focus on the psychology
• Narrators eclipse
• Shift of the point of view