In expressionsim: an attempt to achieve something more than literal events with logical sequence. Novels were written in "Stream of Consciousness" style where one character tells a continuous story "as it happens."
Georg Kaiser (1878-1945) wrote plays for the expressionist movement.
Lady: I went to — bank.
Cashier: As cool as a cucumber —
Lady: I demanded —
Cashier: You tried to.
Lady: I tried —
Cashier: You did. With your forged letter.
Lady: [Taking a paper from her handbag] : Isn't my letter genuine.
Cashier: As false as your diamonds.
Lady: I offered them as a security. Why should my precious stones be paste?
Cashier: Ladies of your kind only dazzle.
Lady: What do you think I am? I'm dark, it's true; a Southerner, a Tuscan.
Cashier: From Monte Carlo.
Lady: \Smiles\ : No, from Florence!
In Futurism: F.T.Marinetti (1876- 1944) wrote a Literature Manifesto. He introduces it with: "The imagination without strings, and words-in-freedom, will bring us to the essence of material. As we discover new analogies between distant and apparently contrary things, we will endow them with an ever more intimate value. Instead of humanizing animals, vegetables, and minerals (an outmoded system) we will be able to animalize, vegetize, mineralize, electrify, or liquefy our style, making it live the life of material. For example, to represent the life of a blade of grass, I say, ‘Tomorrow I’ll be greener.’"
So, a new way of telling, of describing.
Enrico Cavacchioli (1885-1954) wrote this stanza in a poem:
"Mild sentiment of a benumbed bourgeois
wrapped in furs that never can be paid for:
yearning for what cannot be, thirsting for infinity,
the fever of tomorrow.
Obsessions hammer at our delicate craniums as thin as the skulls of kittens."
In Surrealism: Show imagination and dreamlike states in words, with contrasting images and ideas. Tries to get the reader to look deeper into the meaning of the work.
By Fedrico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936): a stanza from "Dawn"
"Dawn arrives and no one receives it in his mouth
because morning and hope are impossible there:
sometimes the furious swarming coins
penetrate like drills and devour abandoned children."
The imagery is strong, but it is not apparent exactly what is going on.
Georg Kaiser (1878-1945) wrote plays for the expressionist movement.
Lady: I went to — bank.
Cashier: As cool as a cucumber —
Lady: I demanded —
Cashier: You tried to.
Lady: I tried —
Cashier: You did. With your forged letter.
Lady: [Taking a paper from her handbag] : Isn't my letter genuine.
Cashier: As false as your diamonds.
Lady: I offered them as a security. Why should my precious stones be paste?
Cashier: Ladies of your kind only dazzle.
Lady: What do you think I am? I'm dark, it's true; a Southerner, a Tuscan.
Cashier: From Monte Carlo.
Lady: \Smiles\ : No, from Florence!
In Futurism: F.T.Marinetti (1876- 1944) wrote a Literature Manifesto. He introduces it with: "The imagination without strings, and words-in-freedom, will bring us to the essence of material. As we discover new analogies between distant and apparently contrary things, we will endow them with an ever more intimate value. Instead of humanizing animals, vegetables, and minerals (an outmoded system) we will be able to animalize, vegetize, mineralize, electrify, or liquefy our style, making it live the life of material. For example, to represent the life of a blade of grass, I say, ‘Tomorrow I’ll be greener.’"
So, a new way of telling, of describing.
Enrico Cavacchioli (1885-1954) wrote this stanza in a poem:
"Mild sentiment of a benumbed bourgeois
wrapped in furs that never can be paid for:
yearning for what cannot be, thirsting for infinity,
the fever of tomorrow.
Obsessions hammer at our delicate craniums as thin as the skulls of kittens."
In Surrealism: Show imagination and dreamlike states in words, with contrasting images and ideas. Tries to get the reader to look deeper into the meaning of the work.
By Fedrico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936): a stanza from "Dawn"
"Dawn arrives and no one receives it in his mouth
because morning and hope are impossible there:
sometimes the furious swarming coins
penetrate like drills and devour abandoned children."
The imagery is strong, but it is not apparent exactly what is going on.