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Page 1: Twentieth Century Short Story Modernism Modernism is a comprehensive but vague term for a movement that began to get under way in the closing years
Page 2: Twentieth Century Short Story Modernism Modernism is a comprehensive but vague term for a movement that began to get under way in the closing years
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Twentieth Century Short Story

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Modernism

Modernism is a comprehensive but vague term for a movement that began to get under way in the closing years of the 19th c. and which has had a wide influence internationally during much of the 20th c. Some theorists suggest that the movement was at its height during the 1920s while other contend that it is not actually over. As far as literature is concerned, modernism reveals a breaking away from established rules, traditions and conventions, fresh ways of looking at man's position and function in the universe and many (in some cases remarkable) experiments in form and style. It is particularly concerned with language and how to use it—representationally or otherwise. (from Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory)

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Modernism

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Short Stories

• Overall tips– Read closely– Plot understanding– Annotate

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“A Rose for Emily” (1931)

• William Faulkner (1897-1962)– Southern American

• The Sound and the Fury

• Won two Pulitzers and one National Book Award

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“A Rose for Emily”

• Goal: – Close reading to see how the author frames

his characters to manipulate our viewing.

• Consider Hitchcock:

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What does Hitchcock want us to believe? How does he do this?

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“A Rose for Emily”

• Tips to reading (in no particular order):– Not in chronological order – pay attention to transitions

• Who is the narrator? – Omniscient First Person

• Look for colors (Gold, Silver, Black)• Look for a scene shown through a window or a door. • Answer For Analysis question 2; On Style questions 1

and 3; and choose one of the Making Connections questions to answer (you will have answered four questions total). 

– Write on a separate sheet or type.