Michael Garuba Differentiate Modernism from Post Modernism Modernism‚ in literature‚ is the basic concept of new methods through new reasoning. During the renaissance period of English history‚ the traditional values of Western civilization‚ which the Victorians had only begun to question‚ came to be questioned seriously by a number of new writers who saw society breaking down around them. The world was being looked at from a new perspective‚ mostly scientifically. Traditional literary forms
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Post Modernism (1965-present): 1. responses to modernism‚ especially refusals of some of its totalizing premises and effects‚ and of its implicit or explicit distinction between ’high’ culture and commonly lived life 2. responses to such things as a world lived under nuclear threat and threat to the geosphere‚ to a world of faster communication‚ mass mediated reality‚ greater diversity of cultures and mores and a consequent pluralism 3. acknowledgments of and in some senses struggles
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Prufrock and Modernism Modernist literature is the representation of the societal crises and disorientation which was resultant of the burgeoning industrialisation and mechanisation of society in the 20th century. This instigated an evolution of thought which challenged the preconceived notions and boundaries enforced by society and gave rise to new perceptions in relation to the world. Modernism is marked by experimentation‚ and in particular the manipulation of form. This is evident in T.S Eliot’s
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Adapted from draft 6: Write a personal essay about an experience reminded by A Walk to the Jetty. Farewell It was the night before I set off. I sat on the floor in my lovely bedroom‚ enjoying myself in creating a mess when I tried to figure out what to take with to college. It’s been too long that I could spend my time just doing nothing; to me that was like running into a pink elephant during the past several years. But I was no longer a bird in cage‚ but soon would fly up high to the azure
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Manet and Modernism: A Perspective on Manet Modernism‚ as it relates to the work of Edouard Manet‚ requires at least two caveats as prerequisites to forming a perspective. The problem is twofold: 1) ‘modernism’ is a term with broad‚ even sometimes vague‚ definitions‚ and 2) Edouard Manet’s prolific work is open to broad degrees of interpretation. In the first instance‚ and for the contextual purposes of this essay‚ ‘modernism’ can be described here as primarily including efforts in the field
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conventions in art including concepts of originality and authenticity. It also corresponds to ideas about politics‚ society and culture and looks at how artists often appropriate (borrow) ideas or imagery from other sources/artists. MODERNISM Defining Modernism: - Refers to the period dating from about the 1860s to 1970s - Used to describe the style of the ideology of the art produced during this era - Modern art arose as part of the Western society’s attempt to come to terms with urban
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with talking vultures in "Their Eyes were Watching God) Minimalism Extreme restriction of a work’s contents to a bare minimum of necessary elements Minimalism Authors include Samuel Beckett‚ Ernest Hemingway‚ and the imagists Modernism A general term applied retrospectively to the wide range of experimental and avant-garde trends in the literature and other arts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries‚ mainly in Europe and North America. The movement’s literature is characterized
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Modernism in Literature Introduction The horrors of World War I (1914-19)‚ with its accompanying atrocities and senselessness became the catalyst for the Modernist movement in literature. Modernist authors felt betrayed by the war‚ believing that the institutions in which they were taught had led the civilized world into bloody conflict. They no longer turned to these institutions as a reliable means to decipher the meaning of life but instead sought for the answers within themselves. Thus‚ the
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Themes of Modernism The term Modernism refers to the shift in values and cultural awareness that appeared in the art and literature of the post- World War One period. Modernism showed that there had been a change since the previous Victorian period. The Victorian era and its literature showed a very optimistic outlook on life‚ but the new era of Modernism rejected this idea and chose to portray life to be extremely pessimistic. Many of the Modern writers showed the world and society to be in an
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with each other‚ they are traditionally clusted under the label of Modernism. It is thus rather difficult to give a precise definition of modernism‚ one that encompasses all the characteristics of the aritists and architects who are commonly grouped under this label. What modernists do have in common is that their work contains at least one of two characteristics of modernism. One fundamental characteristic of modernism is a demonstration of progressive innovation. In general‚ a modernist
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