Modernism is a period in literary history which started around the early 1900s and continued until the early 1940s. Modernist writers in general stood against typical storytelling and ordinary verse from the 19th century. Instead‚ many of them told stories the way they seen it in a state of society during and after World War I. “Modernist literature is characterized chiefly by a rejection of 19th-century traditions and of their consensus between author and reader”- Chris Baldick. In all‚ modernism
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especially when we compare it to the very forward and involving writing style. In the story “Real Time” by Amit Chaudhuri there is a very clear and direct use of realism in most of what he writes. Through his expansive use of realism‚ we are shown the modernist themes of detachment‚ cultural boundaries and intolerance. These themes are portrayed very strongly in Chaudhuri’s writing because they help in showing the social detachment that occurs in the modern world especially in multi-cultural societies.
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JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941) He is a 20th century Irish modernist short story writer‚ novelist and poet. He was affected from naturalism‚ romanticism and realism. He was a master of the English language. He uses stream of consciousness technique and his works are full of parodies‚ allusions‚ inner monologues. His works are rich in characterization and brood humour. His psychological perceptions and innovative literary techniques make him one of the most influential writers of the 20th century
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The blackbird is the only element in nature which is aesthetically compatible with bleak light and bare limbs: he is‚ we may say‚ a certain kind of language‚ opposed to euphony‚ to those "noble accents and lucid inescapable rhythms" which Stevens used so memorably elsewhere in Harmonium. … There are thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird because thirteen is the eccentric number; Stevens is almost medieval in his relish for external form. This poetry will be one of inflection and innuendo; the inflections
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(more specifically‚ to modernist literature): 1) The modernist novel asks questions such as: * How can I interpret the world? * What is there to be known? Who knows it? To what degree of certainty? * What are the limits of knowledge? 2) Some devises used to reflect these questions: * Stream of consciousness * Moving away from third person omniscient narrator * Unreliable narrator 3) Characteristics of modernist fiction: * Multiplication/juxtaposition
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laureate. He is famous for his novels‚ essays‚ screenplays‚ and short stories. It should be noted that Faulkner was a representative of modernist literature and as we all know‚ literary modernism was driven by a strong desire to change traditional principles of presentation and expression of the sensibilities of the time. “A Rose for Emily” is a good example of modernist literature and one of the most well-known works by William Faulkner. This is a tragic story of conflict between old and new‚ between
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Modernist literature is the literary expression of the tendencies of Modernism‚ especially High modernism.[1] Modernistic art and literature normally revolved around the idea of individualism‚ mistrust of institutions (government‚ religion)‚ and the disbelief of any absolute truths. Modernism as a literary movement reached its height in Europe between 1900 and the middle 1920s.[2] Modernist literature addressed aesthetic problems similar to those examined in non-literary forms Modernist
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human relations have shifted— those between masters and servants‚ husbands and wives‚ parents and children. And when human relations change there is at the same time a change in religion‚ conduct‚ politics‚ and literature.”(Woolf‚ Mr. Bennett‚ 22) Modernists were the literary artists who would come to address these changes in human character. The way individual reality was seen‚ as well as the way a single moment was processed‚ viewed and represented through the narrative had changed. Narration was
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Hemingway uses age‚ racism‚ and sexism as common themes in his short stories. Nick and his father go to an Indian Camp with shanties. His father delivers a baby and Nick witnesses it. In Indian Camp and The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife by Ernest Hemingway‚ Hemingway uses the themes of racism‚ coming of age‚ and sexism to show Nick’s transition into adulthood. Hemingway’s writing is based on his life. Hemingway was born and lived in the time of World War l and World War ll. He has mother and girlfriend
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HEMINGWAY You go to the races? INTERVIEWER Yes‚ occasionally. HEMINGWAY Then you read the Racing Form . . . . There you have the true art of fiction. —Conversation in a Madrid café‚ May 1954 Ernest Hemingway writes in the bedroom of his house in the Havana suburb of San Francisco de Paula. He has a special workroom prepared for him in a square tower at the southwest corner of the house‚ but prefers to work in his bedroom‚ climbing to the tower room only when “characters” drive
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