MODERNISM

Impersonality

The mythical method

In using the myth, in manipulating a continuous parallel between contemporaneity and antiquity, Mr. Joyce is pursuing a method which others must pursue after him. [....] It is simply a way of controlling, of ordering, of giving a shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history. It is a method already adumbrated by Mr. Yeats, and of the need for which I believe Mr. Yeats to have been the first contemporary to be conscious. (T.S. Eliot)

The poet has not a personality to express, but a particular medium, which is only a medium and not a personality, in which impressions and experiences combine in peculiar and unexpected ways. The emotion of art is impersonal. (T.S. Eliot)

The Waste Land

The Second Coming

Rhapsody on a windy might Objective correlative

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding the objective correlative, in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked. (T.S. Eliot)

Ulysses

FUTURISM
-Bisogna distruggere la sintassi disponendo i sostantivi a caso, come nascono ; One must destroy syntax by arranging nouns at random, as they are born.

- Distruggere nella letteratura lio ; Destroy the I in literature - Sostituire la psicologia delluomo, ormai esaurita, con lossessione lirica della materia; Substitute mans psychology, now exhausted, with the lyrical obsession with matter (From the Manifesto tecnico della Letteratura Futurista)