Modernism: An Introduction

Lecture 22 English 1120 -- War in Literature Professor Timothy H. Wilson Department of English, University of Ottawa (Winter 2022) An introduction to the intellectual roots of "Modernism" in such thinkers as Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche and Freud. Finally, an introduction to some of the aesthetic movements of literary modernism -- in particular how Modernism's exploration of the "fragmentation" of meaning and experience was connected with Cubism in the visual arts. Time Codes: 0:00 - Introduction 0:43 - Lecture Outline 1:30 - Charles Darwin (1809-82) and Modernism 4:10 - Karl Marx (1818-83) and Modernism 5:50 - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and Modernism 8:17 - Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) and Modernism 12:28 - World War I and Modernism 13:23 - The Aesthetics of Modernism -- "making it new"; example of Imagism and "The Red Wheelbarrow" (1923) by William Carlos Williams 19:51 - Cubism -- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) 22:40 - T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" (1922) 28:42 - James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) 31:59 - Conclusion Related Lectures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1K2LSWGP8k&t=30s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN2tGc0dy8A&t=1632s Other Links: Course Web site – War in Literature: https://sites.google.com/site/untergehenproject/courses/eng-1120-war-in-literature Professor Wilson's Web site -- The Western Canon: https://sites.google.com/site/untergehenproject/sample6 The powerpoint slides for this lecture can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-krDi2D5TPRpJE0wpTHFXEqOGxRQDrAy/view?usp=sharing