LITERARY MOVEMENTS:THE REINVENTION OF STYLES

“LANGUAGE IS A VIRUS FROM OUTER SPACE”

William S. Burroughs(1914-1997)

surrealist /absurdist tendenciesdeconstrution of: labels (gays, junkies) narratives (cut-out and fold-in methods)influent on the arts, music scene

Naked Lunch (1959)

BEAT GENERATION

other authors:Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac

“THERE IS SHADOW UNDER THIS RED ROCK”

T. S. Eliot(1888-1965)

formal and highly intellectualallusive/ironic poetrylayering of meanings contrasting styles

The Wast Land (1922)

other authors:Ernest Hemingway

Virginia Woolf

MODERNISM

“FACTS ALONE ARE WANTED IN LIFE”

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

socially orientedreal world problemsrealistisc versesaccessible voice: novelsvery popular - “celebrity”encourage of society

Hard Times (1854)

other authors:Thomas Hardy Lewis Carroll

VICTORIAN PERIOD

“DOES THE EAGLE KNOW WHAT IS IN THE PIT”

William Blake(1757-1827)

abstractions/metaphysicalmysticalintroversionindividualismnarrative poemsmetrics

The Book of Thel (1789)

other authors:Walt Whitman

Edgar Allen Poe

ROMANCTICISM

ROMANCTICISM VICTORIAN PERIOD

MODERNISMBEAT GENERATION

This thesis presents the hypothesis that graphic design, as languages, follows fashions and styles in order to create narratives. Such a hypothesis arise the analyses on how had it reinvented itself through time as a communication method and questions if it had developed as a graphic language, becoming more refined, or if it just responds to limited time trends.