Monday, March 21, 2011

Notes: March 7 - March 18

Modernism:  (WWI-WWII)
The phrase "
lost generation" was coined by Stein.  Many new narrative techniques developed in this time.
The battle cry was to "
make it new" - in an attempt to break with the past, modernists attempted to completely redo the art.
Some of the
narrative forms developed were multiple narrators, minor characters as 1st person, and unreliable narrators.  Think Huck Finn - how would this be different with if Tom Sawyer, for example, narrated?
Post-Modernism: (started WWII)
Television brought upon the realization that
truth is local.
Post modernism = modernism - universal truth + irony.
^legit mathmatical equation
This time blends high and low culture.
Surrealism:
Juxtaposition subconsciously stimulates the readers, and activates their minds beyond logic.
Freud and Jung influenced this.
 
^Something about this picture makes it slightly creepy...but you can't really put your finger on what.  That is commonly seen in surrealist paintings.

Many worksheets were given out - rather than type them all out, read them.
- Especially read over the packet on types of comedy and techniques of comedy.

2 comments:

  1. Sarah,

    Pass. These notes look very helpful; you summarizied the material we covered in class well. I really like how you connected the material to the other things we've learned in class, and I really like the color you added. It helps to highlight the important terms. Nice work.

    Taylor Rawson

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  2. Pass.
    I like your comment about the math equation :) Your connections are really good too.

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