surrealistic painting and writing explores the inner depths of the unconscious mind. Freudian ideas have provided subject matter for authors and artists. Critics often analyze art and literature in Freudian terms. 2. Literary Modernism and its sub-movements. The influence of Structuralism and psychoanalysis. Main characteristic features of Modernism. Denial of conventions, traditional structure, plot and presentation of character. The stream of consciousness. Allusiveness. Virginia Woolf's Modern Fiction as a theoretical platform for Modernism. Criticism of Realist literary method. Literary modernism: end of the 19th century-1920 (reached its height) and ended 1940s. A self- conscious break with traditional aesthetic forms. Rejecting the sentiment and discursiveness typical of Romanticism and Victorian literature for poetry that instead favored precision (täppis) of imagery and clear, sharp language
g. Joyce’s Ulysses), music (e.g. Richard Aldington Death of a Hero, Woolf’s The Waves). Almost no new topics, just new ways of treating old topics. Things happen in the mind at the same time as other daily things. Stream of consciousness – constant flow of thoughts. Allusiveness (allusion – a figure of speech that either directly or indirectly makes a reference to other people, places, events, literary work, myths, works of art, etc.). Written for the elite, difficult to read. First author to incorporate modernist ideas Joseph Conrad but not a true modernist
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