UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE SANTIAGO

(UTESA)
SISTEMA CORPORATIVO
FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS Y HUMANIDADES

Subject
American Literature Anglophone Countries

Group
001

Topic

Literature Movements

Assigment
Commentaries (13th week)

Name
Paula Hiraldo Mercado

ID
1-19-2823

Teacher
Teofilo Alvarez
Commentaries

1. Socialist realism

It is an idealized realistic art style that was developed in the Soviet

Alliance and was the official style in that area between 1932 and 1988, as
well as in other socialist areas after World War II. Socialist realism is
characterized by the representation of communist values, such as the
emancipation of the proletariat. Despite its name, the style's figures tend
to be quite idealized, particularly in sculpture, where it constantly draws
heavily on the conventions of traditional sculpture. Although related, it
should not be confused with social realism, a style of art that realistically
depicts subjects of social interest, or other forms of "realism" in the visual
arts. Socialist realism was achieved in a drastically literal and obvious
sense, mainly through the demonstration of an idealized USSR. Socialist
realism used to be devoid of complex artistic meaning or interpretation.

2. Magical realism

Magic realism is a style of fiction and literary art. It paints a realistic

perspective of the entire world while adding magical features, constantly
blurring the lines between fantasy and truth. Magical realism is commonly
related to literature in particular, with magical or supernatural phenomena
presented in a mundane or real-world setting, which is usually in novels
and dramatic representations. Regardless of integrating certain magical
resources, it is mainly considered that it is a distinct genre of fantasy and
that magical realism uses an important portion of realistic details and
employs magical resources to highlight the truth, so much so that fantasy
stories constantly remain separate from each other the truth.

3. Decadent movement

Decadent movement was a late 19th-century artistic and literary

repression centered on the Western European continent that followed an
aesthetic doctrine of excess and artificiality. The work of visual artist
Félicien Rops and the novel Against Nature (1884) by Joris-Karl
Huysmans are prime examples of decadent repression. It first flourished
in France and then spread throughout Europe and the United States.
Repression characterized religion in the superiority of human creativity
and delight in logic and the natural planet.
4. Symbolism

The Symbolist Movement in Literature, first published in 1899 and

supplemented by additional material in 1919, is a work by Arthur Simons
who is largely credited with bringing French symbolism to the attention
of Anglo-American literary circles. His first two editions were a vital
influence on W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot, a note that for no other reason
guaranteed him a historical place among the most relevant early modernist
criticism. Richard Ellmann wrote the introduction to most modern
editions.

5. Futurism

Futurism was an artistic and social displacement that originated in Italy

and, to a lesser extent, other territories, in the early 20th century. It
emphasized dynamism, speed, technology, adolescence, violence and
objects such as the car, the plane and the industrial metropolis. Its key
figures included Italians Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni,
Carlo Carrà, Fortunato Depero, Gino Severini, Giacomo Balla and Luigi
Russolo. Italian futurism glorified modernity and, according to its
ideology, sought to free Italy from the weight of its past. Among the
relevant Futurist works are Marinetti's 1909 Manifesto of Futurism,
Boccioni's 1913 sculpture Unique Ways of Continuity in Space, Balla's
1913-1914 painting Abstract Speed + Sound, and The Art of the noises by
Russolo (1913).

6. Steam of consciousness

It is a narrative technique in non-dramatic fiction intended to render the

flow of myriad impression visual, auditory, physical, associative, and
subliminal that impact on the consciousness of an individual and form part
of his awareness along with the trend of his rational thoughts. The term
was first used by the psychologist William James in The Principles of
Psychology (1890). As the psychological novel developed in the 20th
century, some writers attempted to capture the total flow of their
characters’ consciousness, rather than limit themselves to rational
thoughts. To represent the full richness, speed, and subtlety of the mind at
work, the writer incorporates snatches of incoherent thought,
ungrammatical constructions, and free association of ideas, images, and
words at the pre-speech level.
7. Modernism

Modernism is a philosophical and artistic movement born out of the vast

transformations in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. The movement reflected a desire to create new art forms,
philosophies, and social organization that reflected the emerging new
industrial world, including properties such as urbanization, architecture,
new technologies, and war. Artists tried to move away from classical art
forms that they considered old-fashioned or outdated. Poet Ezra Pound's
1934 order "Make it new" became the touchstone of the approach to
displacement.