Sunday, March 20, 2011

Notes: 3/7 - 3/18

Last notes ever!
 
MODERNISM

  • "Make it new" was the moto of the times
  • New universal truth
  • Began with WWI, ends with WWII
  • New form of narrative  consisting of...
    • unreliable narrators
    • multiple narrators
    • minor characters as 1st person narrators
    • and stream of consciousness
POST-MODERNISM
  • TV - spread of post modernism
  • Post Modernism = Modernism - universal truth + irony
  • There was a blending of high & low culture
  • Self reference - tiger blood and such
  • The Simulacrum - basically fiction becomes more real than reality. 
SURREALISM
  • between WWI and WWII.
  • Uses unexpected juxtapositions in way intended to activate subconscious associations that highlight truths hidden from us when we are trapped in linear patterns of thought. 
  • joins the world of dreams and fantasy to reality to create a larger reality- 'sur-realism'
  • Salvador Dali and the other guys..

..and that's the end.

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