1. MODERN AGE

2. Summary: Chiara Leone Alessandra Giulia • The jazz age • The New Deal • World war II • The Welfare State • Elizabeth II • Interiormonologue and the theatreofAbsurd • A deep cultural crisis • Freud’s influence • Rhe theory of relativity • External time vs internal time • Great exspectations • The swinging 1950’s • The reignof Edward VII • The Suffragettes • World war I • Imagism and Symbolism • The Irish question and the Easter Rising • The transformations of British society beetween the wars • Committed poetry and new romantic poetry

3. Edward VII (1901 – 1910) Industrial unrest, violence , strikes Suffragettes

4. Edward VII • 9 November 1841 the eldest son of Queen Victoria. • Victoria did not approve of Edward • Liberal government: Social legislation (it was the focus of Parliament ) • 1902 Education Act provided subsidized secondary education; 1908 old age pensions were estabilished CRISIS: • David Lloyd-George proposed major tax increases on wealthy landowners and was defeated in Parliament. • Prime Minister Asquith appealed to Edward to create several new peerages to swing the vote • Edward steadfastly refused and died amidst crisis

5. Suffragettes • 1903 Women Social and Political Union by Mrs Emmeline Pankurst • RIGHTS FOR WOMEN 1918: granting of women ‘s rights 1928: All women could vote

6. World war I Germany, Austria – Hungary, Italy Triple entente: Britain, British Empire, France, Russia and allies

8. Imagism

9. The apparition of these faces in the crowd;petals on a wet, black, bough.L'apparizione di questi volti tra la folla;petali su un ramo nero bagnato. Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro

10. Symbolism and free verse

11. The Irish question 1916 on easter Monday volunteers proclamed a Irish Republic • the Irish parlament in Dublin was born • Civil war was prepared 1949 Proclamation of the Republic of Ireland

12. The transformations of British society between the wars • Families became smaller and women were more independent • People lived in the town centres • The rise of newspapers (The times, Daily news, Daily telegraph, Daily Express, Daily Herald) • 1920 the first car appeared

14. New RomanticPoetry

15. The 1920’s(Jazz age)

16. The 1920 (Jazz age) Segregation of minoritios Harlem 1929 Wall Street Crash Great Depression High national income “consumers’ goods” Real scare (fear of Socialism) execution of 2 Italian anarchists The governmentwantstoencourage the welfare of private business Some areasof America are poor

17. The New Deal with Franklin Roosevelt • “relief, recovery, reform” • The Unemployed are employed on public works

18. World war II

20. Great Britain vs Japanatomicbomb (nuclear era)

21. The 1950’s:1952: Elizabeth II was the queen of England: Britain was dependent on the USA, and lost its empire

22. The InteriorMonologue

23. The Theatreof the Absurd

24. The theatreof anger

25. 1950’s • Sexual ethics and family changed drastically • 1957: homosexuals are not persecuted by law; birth of rock’n roll • 1958: commitee for Nuclear Disarmament marched from nuclear research establishment at Aldermaston • Bertrand Russell sat down in Trafalgue Square, model for protest in the 60s

26. Sigmund Freud • 1856 – 1939 • His new ideas have a big influence • Studies the development of human psyche and subconscious • Models of relationschip were readjusted Freud’s Movement for women’s suffrage

27. Relativity • Albert Einstain: time and space subjective dimensions • Ludwing Wittgenstain: Quartum Mechanics • Rebellion against perspective and phenomenal representation in art, or revolution of tone, rhytm and harmony

28. Externaltime vs internaltime William James and Henry Bergson The Mind records everything as continuous flow in the “already” in the “not yet” • Emotional relativity • Historical time is external, linear • Psychological time is internal and subjective

29. Swinging in 60’s

30. …60’s • Mood of ribellion • Self expression and liberation (drugs, discotheques, permissiveness in films, plays and magazines and in general behavior • Time togheter with no marriage, one parent families helped by the governement • Women could abort, homosexual couples openly set up house

31. Beatles

32. The RollingStones

33. The Who

34. Moderator: Giulia Venturini Observator: Chiara Saraca Volpini Responsable: Alessandra Norgini LanguageReviser: Leone Palmeri