Research Component: Final Draft
The 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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turnitin ID: 46997738
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