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modernism literary period
Lyra, Diede, Romi, Senna

Slide 1 - Slide

what are we going to talk about:
  • What is modernism and what was happening?
  • Genres, Subjects and writing styles
  • To what was modernism a reaction
  • Authors 

Slide 2 - Slide

What do you know about
modernism already?

Slide 3 - Mind map

what is modernism?
  • 1910-1940
  • WW1
  • Democratization and industrialization
  • realism
  • individualism
  • inner events
  • stream-of-conciousness method
  • exploring new ideas
  • better place

Slide 4 - Slide

when was the modernism literary period?
A
1930-1940
B
1942-1980
C
1910-1940
D
1900-1950

Slide 5 - Quiz

what was important in modernism?
A
the situation itself
B
the emotions characters felt during the situation

Slide 6 - Quiz

writing styles
  • Following one individual
  • Perspective 
  • Poetry: free verse
  • rejects traditional ideas
  • inner monologues
  • prose

Slide 7 - Slide

genres
  • Fantasy and fiction (Hobbit, Lord of the rings)
  • Drama

Slide 8 - Slide

subjects
  • A lot going on (WW1, politics, industrial developments)
  • Changing and dealing with the world
  • Discrimination (Gertrude Stein)

Slide 9 - Slide

what were the main genres in modernism?
A
Discrimination, fantasy and fiction
B
Fantasy and fiction, drama
C
Drama, discrimination
D
science-fiction, drama

Slide 10 - Quiz

differences between realism and modernism
Realism
Modernism
- Realistic
- Here and now
- Life as it was, sometimes depressing
- simple life
- Realistic fiction
- Future
- Always hope

- showed everything, also discrimination

Slide 11 - Slide

What was modernism a reaction to?
  • realism
  •  differences and similarities
  • both realistic heroes

Slide 12 - Slide

important autors

Slide 13 - Slide

Virginia Woolf
  • Born in London, 1882
  • writer and feminist
  • Mrs Dalloway
  • Bold Writer
  • "Why can't women be independent?"

Slide 14 - Slide

Ezra Pound
  • Born in Hailey, 1885
  • London, Paris and Italy
  • "In a station of the Metro"
  • Influence on other writers

Slide 15 - Slide

When was Mrs. Dalloway published?
A
1929
B
1925
C
1923

Slide 16 - Quiz