Literary Terms

English 753: Twentieth-Century Novel P.Laurence
Review of critical terms and literary concepts
Literary Movements and Style
Modernism
As a literary style (Inward, changes in form and language; outward, historical
and social changes)
As a grouping of texts
As a group of authors
Sharing certain themes
Sharing certain stylistic features and innovations
Historical changes/traumas (WWI and II)
Connection with “modernity”(technological, urbanization)
Dates (roughly), origins
High modernism, High and low Styles
Time (chronological, psychological, narrative)
Post-modernism
Post-Colonialism
Realism
Colonialism
Post-war writing/affect: literature of the 50s
Globalization (migrations, transatlantic crossings)

Kinds of narration:
Characters/no characters
Author
Narrator
Interior monologue
Quoted monologue
1st and 3rd person narration
multiple points of view
omniscient narrator (authorial narrator)
polyphony
Subjective
Objective
Parody
Irony
Quotation
Psychology:
Unconscious
Dreams
Memory (retrospective narration)
Representation of mind in narration
Time and Narration
Moments of being (Woolf)
Epiphany (Joyce)
Involuntary memory (Proust)
Time (chronological, psychological, multi-layered)