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Materie:	Tema
Categoria:	Inglese
Download:	93
Data:	09.03.2007
Numero di pagine:	2
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The general mood of the twentieth century is divided in two parts: from a part there is a high level of civilization and industrialization of England, from the other part there is a dissatisfaction of the individual, who don’t feel part of this era of changes. The intellectual don’t integrate with the society.
This is the century of the two World Wars, of the Wall Street crash, of the Rush Socialism.
After this period in England there is the Welfare State and the literature is characterized by the modernism: an experimentation of new form of art and the search of new values.
So the fiction changes and begins to present the people in the social contest. The characters are real, not imaginary and became important for their inner selves and not because what going around or outside them.
In this way there is a discovery of the individuality and the man show how the external events influence on that happens behind him.
So the interest of the novel moving from the society to the man with the psychoanalysis.
An important character of this period is Froid who studies the psychoanalysis and formulas theories about the unconscious that is on the motives of the actions of the man.
The psychological novel born with writers such as Stevenson, Conrad, Kingly that we can define as writers of sea, and Joyce and Woolf who use new technique and new form.
The writers of sea describe the man that measured himself directly with the nature and describe the sea such as the ideal environment to experiment the moment of truth. They use also the exotic background such as mirror of the man’s mysterious inner world. Joyce and Woolf create the stream of consciousness. The novelist tire to explore the mental process: how the thoughts are formed and from things they came product and they tire to capture the moment. The novel concerns with the area that is behind communicative and it is divided in two parts: the rational level that can be communicated and the pre-speech level that came before the rational level and hasn’t communicative bases. So the novel is concerned on the part of the human soul that is hidden.
The literary technique use for this new novel is the interior monologue, a discourse that is done to himself and isn’t regulated from the mind.