For Wednesday, February 26

Some definers for literary styles:

T. S. Eliot-Fragmentation

Andrew Marvell-Metaphysical-Neo-Classical

Joseph Conrad-Impressionist Literature
 

The paintings above are examples of impressionism.  Impressionism was also a trend in literature during the early 1900s.  Here is a description below.

Impressionist Literature-Modern 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Why the blurriness?

*For modern novelists, the messiness and confusion and darkness of experience is interesting.

•Rather than trying to simplify and abstract a particular meaning from experience, novelists tend to wallow in the multiplicity of ideas and meanings and sensations that experience can provide.

•Novelists are in the business of recreating and communicating the rich complexities of the experience itself.

•Their purpose is to get the reader to re-live an experience, with all its complexity and messiness, all its darkness and ambiguity.

Expect a quick quiz over the details of impressionist literature. 

Read Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad.  If you are reading in your textbook, you will read through the first paragraph of page 373.  If you are reading in another text, you will read about 14 paragraphs.  The last sentence you will read is:  "'I suppose you fellows remember I did once turn fresh-water sailor for a bit,' that we knew we were fated, before the ebb began to run, to hear about one of Marlow's inconclusive experiences."

Now create a picture (with crayolas or colored pencils) that captures the setting of these first paragraphs in Heart of Darkness.