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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After reading the article “The Ontology of the Photographic Image” by Andre Bazin‚ it opens the discussion of the origin of painting and sculpting‚ whether it was started by an ancient Egypt religion or something else. The first two paragraphs of the article explains the ancient Egypt religion of preserving their dead by covering them in cloth in order to keep up their appearance after reality (in death). However‚ modern day society is not considered with their appearance/survival after death but
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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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see the shortcomings of this philosophy. He argued that Hegel’s system was a mere ‘ghost of theology’ and swiftly moved on to write his own works. His most famous being ‘The Essence of Christianity’ and ‘The Essence of Religion’. Feuerbach was a modernist and in his major works he tends to reduce religion to its existential‚ sociological and anthropological origins. Feuerbach states that Religion illustrates an interesting and important fact about being human and that is the overwhelming sense humans
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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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Ian McEwan’s Atonement draws inspiration from and alludes to a vast number of 20th century modernist authors and works‚ both stylistically and thematically. For a novel to be considered a successful culmination to the reading of a large body of works‚ however‚ it must not be content with merely echoing the themes‚ styles‚ and forms of the past. Rather‚ it must extend them‚ add to them creatively‚ and attempt to pull them into contemporary readership. While his thematic and stylistic allusions to
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traditional kind of writing (Arnold Bennett‚ John Galsworthy and H.G. Wells). In 1914 the situation is about to change again for two reasons: Ezra Pound decided to make London the centre of a new avant garde and started promoting the work of modernist writers such as James Joyce or Joseph Conrad. The First World War. At the beginning of WWI it seemed it was going to frustrate Ezra Pound’s plans. During the war people weren’t interested in artistic matters and many poets and British artists
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