The Modern Age

The Modern Age

1. Influences

   • Albert Einstein: relativity
   • Bergson: objective and subjective time
   • James: stream of consciousness
   • Freud

2. Modernism: new movement

   • Themes
     • Trivial event
       • Mind of the character: interiority
     • Journey
       • Journey in the Modern Age
     • Alienation
     • Anxiety
     • Lack of communication
   • Style
     • Stream of consciousness
     • Interior monologue
       • No chronological order
       • External and internal level
     • Subjective time
     • No punctuation
     • Broken sentences
     • Grammar mistakes
     • Objective narrator
   • Authors
     • Joyce
       • Works
         • "Dubliners"
           • "Eveline"
           • "The dead"
         • "Ulysses"
           • "Leopold at the funeral"
           • "Molly's monologue"
       • Themes
         • Innovations
         • Epiphany
         • Paralysis
         • Escape
       • Joyce and Woolf
         • Joyce and Woolf
     • Woolf
       • Works
         • "A room of one's own"
         • "To the lighthouse"
         • "Mrs. Dalloway"
     • Eliot
       • Works
         • "The waste land"
           • "What the thunder said"
       • Themes
         • No poetic images
         • Objective correlative
         • Dramatic interior monologue
         • Objective impersonality of art