Phases in the British Modernism
The first phase would be the research of a new realism and perspectivism. This is evident in the first Lawrence's poems, in the Joyce's stories in Dubliners or The Good Soldier wrote by Ford Madow.We could call it Impresionist phase. This would be followed by a phase in which the nex poetic and narrative proposals would teorically articualtae through the Little Magazines' creation and of the profusion of manifests and a posteriori rationalizations of a literary practical of his members.
In this way, the Criterior's foundation (whose editor was T.SEliot) and the canon character that the magazine got wih her inscription in the stablishment expect the inflexion point of the first social vanguardism of the movement and the step to the literary conservadurism of Eliot in her work Four Quartets.
The authors that we have called modernists thought necessary to shape a reader public in order to articulate a minimun space of recptivity of his breaking poetic proposals.
In the second phase we find other modernist topic: the urban independence and indetermination.
In the third phase we find two succesives schools or movement: the Imaginism and the Vorticism. The former is soft, new-simbolist or impresionist. The subjectivity and the individual are very importants. The second school is hard, objective, clasic, cubist, abstract and reactionay.
Fourth phase: In the narrative field we find the breaking expositions in front of an autochthonous tradition. Theses crystalliae in a model of the modern novel in which the greates exponent is J.Joyce but we can also find: Woolf, Mansfield and Lawrence.
Maybe the most interesting point in this fictions is the negativity. The negative categories seem to characterize the whole analyses of the modern poetic: deformation, despersonalization, deshumanization. These concepts are associated with the alienation, the Univers' desintegration of the familiar perception. T.S Eliot called that "dissonance of the destructive imagination".
In the first phase the novel is defined like the expresion of the total or absolut conscience of a subject, specially in the relationship of the subject with the objective world.
But we find in the language, in his manipulation the most eminent modernist mark. We notice that there is a fixing in the language, so this is the only dense matter capable of waving new order realities. In this way, a literary modernization appears. This is used in order to promote the language itself and his reality.
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