Historical Context
Modernism became popular after this breakthrough event in human history.
World War I.
This narrative technique uses internal monologue to capture the narrator's thought process and associations.
the stream of consciousness
Virginia Woolf was born in this city.
London
This novel by Virginia Woolf is named after its main protagonist - a woman preparing a party.
Mrs Dalloway
This French philosopher and the author of Nausea believed that "Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."
Jean-Paul Sartre
This country ruled a quarter of the planet during the rise of modernism.
the UK
shifts in perspective
Virginia Woolf died in 1941 this way.
suicide by drowning
This famous mythical Greek hero inspired James Joyce to write his 1922 masterpiece.
Odysseus (Ulysses)
This classic 1964 musical featuring Audrey Hepburn is an adaptation of a famous play by G. B. Shaw.
My Fair Lady
World War I. took the lives of this many people.
20 million
Experiments with time perception and time distortion were used to illustrate this theory proposed by Albert Einstein.
time is relative
This traumatic childhood experience only contributed to Virginia Woolf's depression and frequent mental breakdowns.
sexual abuse by her brothers
This Prague-based author is considered a modernist, despite not using many of the movement's features. He focused mostly on the alienation, psychological dread and cold detachment in modern society, blending surrealism with realism.
Franz Kafka
This Czech city became an essential global historical landmark when it had the first mine in the world to reach a depth of one kilometer in 1875.
Příbram
This country went through a strong nationalist movement and did not get independence until 1921.
Ireland
Modernists liked to use these events to illustrate larger-than-life ideas and to explore our deep internal worlds.
mundane everyday events
This group of intellectuals named after a part of London included Clive Bell, E.M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf and her husband Leonard Woolf.
The Bloomsbury Group
This anti-colonial novella is considered a precursor to modernism because of its experimental and disjointed narrative and its focus on the psyche of the narrator.
Heart of Darkness
This English football club has recently been found guilty of breaking 114 financial rules and boosting their income by almost one billion pounds.
This man ruled Britain from 1910 to 1936.
George V.
This feature of modernism was greatly influenced by Sigmund Freud.
the modern exploration of the human psyche and the level beneath our consciousness
This publishing house was founded by Virginia and Leonard Woolf in 1917 and published all Woolf's work.
The Hogarth Press
This American writer was a modernist and the founder of the Southern Gothic. In 1949 he received a Nobel Prize for Literature and his most famous novels include The Sound and Fury, As I Lay Dying and Light in August.
William Faulkner
This sentence is the origin of the official Sokol greeting "Nazdar!"
Na zdar Národního divadla!