English Literature / Unit 16 ENL 1548 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Modernism and the City
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The idea
The city is Modernism's characteristic setting: Joyce's Dublin in Ulysses and Dubliners, Woolf's London in Mrs Dalloway, Eliot's "Unreal City" in The Waste Land, and Conrad's Thames, "one of the dark places of the earth." The crowd, the street and isolation recur.
In practice
Dublin, London, the Unreal City.
Where people slip
The city often stands for modern alienation.
Your place on the trail
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