Modernism and the First World War The period of the World War One‚ which took place between 1914 and 1918 may seem short in the history of human being or art‚ but its influence on technology‚ politics‚ people‚ their lifestyles and art was so huge that the war was called The Great War of all the history. It also affected the literature of the time. World War One changed people and their point of views; writers changed their subjects and their literary techniques‚ readers changed their expectations
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Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letter) is the art of written work. The word literature literally means: "things made from letters". Literature is commonly classified as having two major forms—fiction and non-fiction—and two major techniques—poetry and prose. Literature may consist of texts based on factual information (journalistic or non-fiction)‚ a category that may also include polemical works‚ biographies‚ and reflective essays‚ or it may consist of texts based on imagination (such
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Robbie Twitchell Brad Clemons English 10 4-18-12 Moral Relativity and Post Modernism in To Kill a Mockingbird Since the 1960s‚ society has been shifting from the traditional culture based around the organized. It was a society that had a moral base. Since the 1960s‚ the western world‚ and more specifically the United States‚ have shifted away from this moral base and into a post-modernist moral relativity. Rules are suggestions instead of law‚ the standpoint that all opinions are valid but
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Admirably Apt Illustration of Imagist Poetry H.D.’s Storm Tara Porczek Modernism ENGL- 3222/6 Professor Candida Rifkind October 27th 2009 Tara Porczek Modernism ENGL- 3222/6 Professor Candida Rifkind October 27th 2009 The Modernist movement was a period of new ideas. In art‚ particularly poetry‚ modernism inspired new and revolutionary ideas‚ forming distinct poetic groups. Through modernism‚ came Imagism. Imagists rejected traditional poetry such as romantic and futurist
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Modernism vs Neo-Traditionalism: A debate on the merits and failures of two major competing paradigms in architecture and urban planning. Beyond the term modernism underlies one of the greatest ideas in architectural development. Modernism was meant to provide more green areas‚ cheaper housing and more efficient use of space. This was to be accomplished by creating vertically dense spaces with the use of the new inventions of the nineteenth century‚ such as steel‚ glass‚ electricity
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Romanticism Chart Characteristics of Romanticism Examples from Frankenstein 1. A deepened appreciation of the beauties of nature When Frankenstein was dealing with the stress of the creature killing his family members‚ he found comfort in appreciating nature in solitude. 2. A general exaltation of emotion over reason and of the senses over intellect After Frankenstein dies‚ the Creature is remorseful. He says that he let his emotions get the best of him; he knows what he was doing was wrong
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Modernism Characteristic and Theme Both Of Mice and Man and The Great Gatsby‚ are novels that represent authors’ lives. John Steinbeck’s George and Fitzgerald’s Gatsby‚ two outwardly different characters are disillusioned‚ and lost faith with their American Dream‚ but for totally opposite reasons. George and Gatsby are both lonely‚ although the lives they lived were completely different from each other–one is rich the other is poor. In the novels‚ modern characteristic-sense of disillusionment
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Hemingway Notes Modernism: (and Postmodernism) is an artistic movement in response to the discontinuities‚ illogicalities‚ and fragmentation of culture and society in the present day. It refers to the tendency to experiment in radical new techniques‚ themes‚ moods‚ and structures. Atonalism in music‚ surrealism in painting*‚ vers libre in poetry‚ functionalism in architecture (Frank Lloyd Write) etc. It marks a change in they way we experience the world and how we perceive it. It is an attempt
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Hammock English 11 April 25‚ 2013 Essay “ The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” ‚ “Nothing Gold can Stay”‚ and “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” are modernist works. “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner and Night are contemporary works. Modernism is modern thought‚ character‚ or practice. It is the modernist movement in the arts‚ the sets cultural tendencies and associated cultural movements. Contemporary works are set and written in the time it was written. It makes use of literary styles
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Romanticism: Blake and Keats Blake and Keats were renowned poet during the period where Romanticism played an essential part in creative art and works. Romanticism is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world. Poets like Blake and Keats writings were influenced by the fundamentals of nature‚ human emotions‚ feelings‚ imagination‚ instinct and intuition‚ reflection
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