Uzbekistan state world languages university enlish philology faculty

INTRODUCTION


The aim of this course paper is to the study of“Long Day's Journey Into Night"autobiograpic novel ,showing family issues.
According to the aim the following tasks are put forward. They are:

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  To study modernism in English Literature
  
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  To study Eugene O'Neill as a classic and modernist
  
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  To study contemporary reviews of the novel
  
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  To analyse plot and main characters of the “Long Day's Journey Into Night”
  
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  To investigate the influence of the novel to the reader
  

The object of my course paper is "Long Day's Journey Into Night"by Eugene O'Neill
The course paper includes introduction, main part, conclusion and list of references.
The main part includes information about modernism, Eugene O'Neill's biography, his works and their role in literature. Genre originality of the novel “Long Day's Journey Into Night”. About originality of the work and unique style of the writer. Contemporary reviews of “Long Day's Journey Into Night”.
Conclusion is about the current position of the writer's works.
Reference deals with the literatures used in carrying out the investigated work.
MAIN PART

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   Modernism in English Literature
   

Modernism in literature is born on the eve of the First world war and reaches its peak in the twenties simultaneously in all countries of Western Europe and in America. Modernism is an international phenomenon consisting of different schools: imagism, Dadaism, expressionism, surrealism, etc. This is a revolution in literature, the participants of which declared a break not only with the tradition of realistic verisimilitude, but also with the Western cultural and literary tradition in General.
The first generation of modernists were acutely aware of the exhaustion of the realist narrative forms, the aesthetic fatigue. Modernists put the value of individual artistic vision of the world above all else; the artistic worlds they create are uniquely dissimilar to each other, each bearing the stamp of a bright creative identity¹.
They had to live in a period when the values of traditional humanistic culture collapsed – “freedom” meant very different things in Western democracies and in totalitarian States; the carnage of the First world war, in which weapons of mass destruction were first used, showed the true price of human life for the modern world; the humanistic ban on pain, physical and spiritual violence was replaced by the practice of mass shootings and concentration camps. Modernism is the art of a dehumanized era.
Modernists interpret human existence as a brief, fragile moment, and the artist's task is to show the horror, grandeur and beauty that are contained in spite of everything in the moments of earthly existence. Social issues, which played such an important role in the realism of the XIX century, are given indirectly in modernism, as an inseparable part of a complete portrait of the individual. The main area of interest of modernists is the image of the relationship between the conscious and unconscious in a person, the mechanisms of his perceptions, the whimsical work of memory. The modernist hero is taken, as a rule, in the entirety of his experiences, his subjective being, although the very scale of his life may be small, insignificant.