OF THE TWAIN The Modernist period‚ a period which most literary critics agree began in the late nineteenth century‚ was characterized by a total break from past forms and a constant search for new ideas. It was through this search that surrealism began to emerge‚ and many authors began to write about the alienation that mankind faced from both one another and nature‚ due to the rise of modern technology (Monroe and Moennig). Although many authors captured the essence of Modernist literature‚ only
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Bibliography: University Press‚ 2008. ISBN 0231132557 (3) Modanizumu: Modernist Fiction from Japan‚ 1913-1938‚ William J. Tyler. University of Hawaii Press‚ 2008. ISBN 0824832426 Online:
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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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“Modernist texts critique aspects of modernity.” Discuss how composers manipulate and appropriate textual forms and features in their responses to modern culture and values. Modernity was a period that can be loosely defined as unconventional‚ progressive‚ unveiling the barrier of propaganda‚ cultural disenchantment and violent. Throughout the period‚ many aspects affected how composers viewed the world. With effects of war‚ effects of industrialisation and the corruption of political power‚ many
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relevance to us today: In ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ there are various themes‚ symbols and ideas explored. The damaged mind of humanity and the changing nature of gender roles are two of the main themes explored in the poem. Like many modernist writers‚ Eliot wanted to capture the transformed world which he perceived as fractured and denigrated and also wanted his poetry to express the fragile psychological state of humanity in the twentieth century. In the poem ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred
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a distinct change in thought‚ behavior and culutural production during this time. This change is known as Modernism. During the course of this essay‚ I will attempt to discuss briefly the origins of the Modernist movement. Further‚ I will analyse one of the primary manifestations of the modernist aesthetic‚ Literature. Lastly ‚ I wish to identify stylistic and thematic traits of the movement as well as probe representative works such as Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway‚ Eliot’s Prufrock and Other Observations
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writing — roughly between 1910 and 1960. Most modernist literature globalized with the revolution of new technology and the post dramatic events of World War I. The movement ultimately made people question the fate and future of humanity‚ wondering what was soon to become of the world. A few fearless writers‚ much like that of Tennessee Williams or Tim O’Brien reacted to the question of “what’s to become of our world” by turning to some new age‚ modernist values. While the romantic period focused much
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The main purpose of the following work is to analyze two pieces of modernist literature “Mrs Dalloway”‚ by Virginia Woolf and “The Short Happy Life of Francis McComber” by Ernest Hemingway in the light of point of view and experimentation. Both stories are important references to the movement they belong to‚ and share the same modernist characteristics. It is possible to say that they both break with traditional narrative features by going into the minds of the characters and including new writing
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Modernist literature‚ a movement following the break out of the First World War‚ conceptualizes the thoughts and feelings of the “Lost Generation‚” which faced the harsh brutalities of global war. In most Modernist texts‚ authors focus upon the ideas of disillusionment‚ alienation‚ collectiveness‚ disappearing faith‚ and having little direction. Sherwood Anderson‚ uses the ideals of the modernist era in his novel‚ Winesburg‚ Ohio‚ to negatively portray the American Dream. In this novel‚ which is
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THE CRISIS OF MODERNITY: CULTURE‚ NATURE‚ AND THE MODERNIST YEARNING FOR AUTHENTICITY Dissertation zur Erlangung der Würde einer Doktorin der Philosophie vorgelegt der Philosophisch-Historischen Fakultät der Universität Basel und der Faculté des Lettres‚ Langues et Sciences Humaines der Universität Orléans von Ann-Catherine Nabholz von Zürich Basel 2007 i Genehmigt von der Philosophisch-Historischen Fakultät der Universität Basel‚ auf Antrag von Prof. Dr. Hartwig Isernhagen (Universität Basel)
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