DIVISION TEN
MODERNISM AND OTHER TRENDS
Ⅰ. General Introduction
Ⅱ. Contemporary Western Literature Before 1945
Ⅲ. Literature and Philosophy Since 1945
Ⅳ. Art and Music
General Introduction
1. Modernism Defined
2. Historical Context
3. Progress in Science
4. New Ideas and Thoughts
New Ideas and Thoughts
a. The Unconscious
b. Id, Ego, Superego
c. Oedipus Complex
Contemporary Western Literature
Before 1945
1. English Literature
2. Irish Literature
3. American Literature
4. German Literature
5. French Literature
6. Russian and Soviet Literature
a. Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
﹡ The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
﹡ Four
﹡ The
Quartets (1944)
Waste Land (1922)
b. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
﹡He
wrote mostly of sea.
﹡He
was concerned with men under stress.
﹡His
novels were marked by close examination of human
motives and moral values.
﹡Lord Jim (1900)—one of his well-known novels
c. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
﹡ Mrs.
﹡ To
Daloway (1925)
the Lighthouse (1927)
﹡ The
Mark on the Wall
d. David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930)
﹡ Lady
Chatterley’s Lover (1928)
﹡ Sons
and Lovers (1913)
﹡ The
Rainbow (1915)
﹡ Women
﹡ The
in Love (1920)
Lost Girl (1920)
a. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
﹡
The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1889)
﹡
Responsibilities (1914)
﹡The
Tower (1928)
﹡The
Winding Stair and Last Poems (1940)
b. James Joyce (1882-1941)
﹡ Dubliners
﹡A
(1914)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
﹡ Ulysses
(1922)
﹡ Finnegans
Wake (1939)
Announcement of the
initial publication of
Ulysses.
a. Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
﹡a
leading figure of the Imagist movement
﹡ translating
﹡ his
some poems of classical Chinese poems
study of the Japanese haiku
b. William Faulkner (1897-1962)
﹡ The
﹡ As
Sound and The Fury (1929)
I Lay Dying (1930)
c. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
﹡
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
﹡A
Farewell to Arms (1929)
﹡ For
Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
﹡ The
Old Man and the Sea (1952)
Hemingway in 1939
Ernest
Hemingway, c.
1900
Ernest Hemingway in
his World War I uniform
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
﹡ The
Buddenbrooks (1900)
﹡ The
Magic Mountain (1924)
a. André Gide (1869-1951)
﹡ The
Counterfeiters (1925)
b. Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
﹡A
la recherche du temps perdu
(Remembrance of Things Past)
c. Albert Camus (1913-1960)
﹡ The
Stranger (1942)
a. Maksim Gorky (1868-1936)
﹡ Mother
﹡ Childhood
(1912)
﹡ My
Apprenticeship (1915)
﹡ My
University (1923)
b. Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984)
﹡ The
Quiet Don
1. Angry Young Men in England
a. Kingsley Amis (1922- )
﹡ Lucky
Jim (1954)
b. John Osborne (1929- )
﹡ Look
Back in Anger (1956)
2. Beat Generation in America
a. Allen Ginsberg (1926- )
﹡ Howl (1956)
Ginsberg (right) with lifelong friend Gregory Corso
b. Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
﹡ On the Road (1957)
3. Nouveau Roman (New Novel)
a. Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922)
﹡ The Erasers (1953)
﹡ La Jalousie (1957)
﹡ Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
b. Nathalie Sarraute (1902- )
﹡ Portrait of A Man Unknown (1947)
4. Existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
﹡ Being and Nothingness (1943)
﹡ Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960)
﹡ Nausea (1938)
﹡ The wall (1938)
﹡ The Flies (1943)
﹡ No Exit (1944)
5. The Theatre of the Absurd
a. Samuel Beckett (1906- )
﹡ Waiting for Godot (1952)
b. Eugène Ionesco (1912- )
﹡ The Bald Prima Donna (1950)
﹡ Rhinocerous (1960)
6. Black Humor
Joseph Heller (1923- )
﹡ Catch-22 (1961)
Art and Music
1. Art
2. Sculpture
3. Music
Art
a. Fauvism
b. Expressionism
c. Cubism
d. Futurism
e. Dadaism
f. Surrealism
g. Abstract Expressionism
ⅰ. Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
The Joy of Life
Harmony in Red
ⅱ. André Derain (1880-1954)
The Turning Road, L´Estaque
(1906), The Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston
Charing Cross Bridge, London (1906),
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
ⅰ. Emil Nolde (1867-1956)
Christ Among the Children
Emil Nolde The Prophet,
woodcut, 1912
ⅱ. George Grosz (1893-1959)
Punishment
ⅲ. Max Beckmann (1884-1950)
Max Beckmann Self-portrait
with Horn, 1938-1940
The Dream
ⅳ. Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Twittering Birds
ⅴ. Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
In his own words, "Composition VII" was the
most complex piece he ever painted (Kandinsky
1913)
ⅰ. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Three Musicians (1921),
Museum of Modern Art
Guernica
Three Dancers
Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon (1907),
Museum of Modern
Art, New York
Accordionist
ⅱ. Georges Braque
Violin and Candlestick,
Paris, spring 1910,
San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art
Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916)
Umberto Boccioni selfportrait
Unique Forms of
Continuity in Space,
1913 bronze by
Umberto Boccioni
(depicted on the
reverse of the Italian
20 cent euro coin)
The City Rises by
Umberto Boccioni
ⅰ. Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
The Bride
Mona Lisa
ⅱ. Max Ernest (1891-1976)
Max Ernst, Europe After the
Rain II, (1940-1942)
Max Ernst, L'Ange du
Foyer, (1937)
Max Ernst and
Dorothea Tanning in
1948
Max Ernst, Ubu Imperator,
(1921), Musee National d'Art
Moderne, Centre Pompidou,
Paris, France
ⅰ. Salvador Dali (1904- )
Persistence of Memory
ⅱ. Joan Miró (1893- )
Joan Miró, The Tilled Field, (19231924), Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum. This early painting of a
complex of objects and figures, and
arrangements of sexually active
characters; was Miro's first
Surrealist masterpiece.
La Leçon de Ski
Jackson Pollock
Pollock's One: Number 31,
1950 occupies an entire wall
by itself at the Museum of
Modern Art, New York City
No. 5, 1948
a. Henry Moore (1898- )
Hill Arches, (1972-73)
bronze, at the National
Gallery of Australia.
This figure (1951)
outside the Fitzwilliam
Museum, Cambridge,
demonstrates the later
trends in Moore's works.
b. Constantine Brancusi (1876-1957)
The Kiss, 1908
a. Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
﹡ Violin
Concerto, Op. 36
﹡ String
Quartet, Op. 37
﹡ Piano
Concerto, Op. 42
﹡A
Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46
b. Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
﹡ The
Rite of Spring
﹡ The
Firebird
c. Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
﹡ Piano
Concerto No. 3
﹡ Concerto
for Orchestra
d. Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1973)
﹡ Symphony
No.1 in F minor, Op. 10
﹡ Symphony
No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
﹡ Symphony
No. 7 in C major, Op. 60
﹡ Symphony
No. 10 in E minor, Op.93