Core Concepts: 3.07-3.18

Modernism

• Disillusionment following WWI
• Disappointed with society, wanted change
• "Cry of the heart"

New narrative techniques

• Unreliable narrators
• Multiple narrators
• Minor characters as narrators
• Nonlinear narrators
• Stream of consciousness

Surrealism

Between WWI & IIAttempts to join dream/fantasy worlds with reality

• Influenced by Freud and Jung

Modernism - Universal Truth + Irony = Post-Modernism

• No universal truth
• Blending of high and low culture
• Self-reference
• Simulacrum: flawed idea that seems real

The Hollow Men by T. S. Elliot

• "Stuffed men": efigees burnt to tease Guy Fawkes
• Sterility
• Lord's prayer cannot be finished 

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Elliot

• Lower class narrator in the midst of upper class