My name is David Shlora, and I’m a junior at Northview in Mrs. Breaux’s class. I’ve struggled in her class all year long, failing to get through papers one after another, yet Mrs. Breuax has maintained her patience each time and given me the privilege of second chances, including with this very assignment. It’s been a rush attempting to finish this when I once assumed there was no hope – I just hope now that it’s enough.
Research Component: Final Draft
•May 29, 2007 • Leave a CommentThe assignment was to thoroughly research a specific aspect of an author of your choice. I chose the modernist writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and how his outrageous lifestyle affected his writing because I wasn’t very familiar with any of the other authors on the list save for a couple, and because I enjoyed reading The Great Gatsby more than much of the other material we covered.
Some characteristics of Modernism include:
Formal
- Open Form
- Free Verse
- Discontinuous narrative
- Juxtaposition
- Intertextuality
- Classical allusions
- Borrowings from other cultures and languages
- Unconventional use of metaphor
- Metanarrative
- Fragmentation
- Multiple narrative points of view
Thematic
- Breakdown of social norms and cultural sureties
- Dislocation of meaning and sense from its normal context
- Valorization of the despairing individual in the face of an unmanageable future
- Disillusionment
- Rejection of history and the substitution of a mythical past, borrowed without chronology
- Product of the metropolis, of cities and urbanscapes
- Stream of consciousness
- Overwhelming technological changes of the 20th Century
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