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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The emergence of the Holocaust and the Nazi party views can largely be determined as a result of modernity‚ as a reaction against the times. Yet‚ at the same time it can be argued that the National Socialist party can be characterized as a modern development. Modris Eksteins‚ George Mosse‚ and Zygmundt Bauman offer an in-depth look into both the anti-modern and modern aspects of the Nazi movement and the resulting Holocaust. Ekstein’s work proves to be the most thorough of the three works in following
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"We are 100 years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this lag in ten years. Either we do it‚ or they crush us!" Josef Stalin 1931‚ this quote sums up Stalin’s desire to modernize the Soviet Union. Stalin attempt to modernize the Soviet Union through a series of five year plans had various outcomes on the people‚ economy and politics in the country. The results of Stalin’s policies where mixed economically they where great‚ but politically and socially they had major flaws. Stalin
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About 50 years ago‚ the freshly decolonised‚ ’underdeveloped’ nations began a frenetic process of catching up with the West. ’Development’ meant economic growth and industrialisation. But this ’modernisation theory’ is increasingly being challenged today About 50 years ago‚ many countries around the world—freshly decolonised and newly named underdeveloped or developing‚ embarked on varying projects of national development. Some began to develop indigenous industries for export‚ others stepped
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People buy goods and services in a place called market. However‚ when the people need to trade in stocks‚ shares‚ debentures etc. there is a specific place where one needs to go. One cannot deal with these items in a normal market place. Thus a place or a platform where the trading of these shares and stocks takes place is known as the STOCK MARKET. The price of these shares and stocks is not considered by monopoly; rather it is the demand and supply forces of the market that determines the prices
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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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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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Modernism in the 1920s consisted of the middle class perception and how their life was changing not to mention the offers that were within their reach. New products or ideas to the normal way of life was also a part of modernism. Many new technologies awed and changed so many lives. Plus new looks regarding fashion and new appearences for both sexes. In the 1920s life was changing some for the best but also for the worst. For example credit in many ways was and still is a positive while at the
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