MODERNISM (late 19th century and early 20th century)
complex movement which involved all forms of art, from literature and music to visual art and cinema
Psychology
Freud
the interpretation of dreams proposed a theory of human consciousness as multilayered, involving different levels of experence and memory; his theories suggested which perception of reality was therefore fundamentally subjective.
Physics
the breaking down with the limitations in space and time so the introduction of new theories about the time.
Einstein, the theory of relativity
in Europe
the modernist novel in Europe can be considered as a sort of secret agent of literature.
Eliot
Visual art
abstract art ,Kandisky cubism, Picasso
Modern artists experimented with new ways of seeing and with fresh ideas about the nature of materials and functions of art. Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat
in Britain
is marked by change and even upheaval, the modernist saw a sense of decay and growing alienation for individuals
James Joyce, Ulisse
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
influenced by
Henry James
he keeps double identities at the same time. writers give their own vision of the world. subjective point of view, interior monologue and psychological narrative.
Bergson
his theories contributed to the challenge that modernist fiction posed to the traditional idea of linear narrative. the time could not be measured according to units because it's a flow, a duration and not a series of points
