classify the years from 1900 to about 1965 as the Modernist period. During this period‚ society at every level underwent profound changes. War and industrialization seemed to devalue the individual. Global communication made the world a smaller place. The pace of change was dizzying. Writers responded to this new world in a variety of ways. Individualism In Modernist literature‚ the individual is more interesting than society. Specifically‚ modernist writers were fascinated with how the individual
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forms of expression were necessary to relay the realities of a modern and fractured world. The modernist movement was concerned with creating works of art relevant to a rapidly changing world in which institutions such as religion‚ capitalism‚ and social order were thrown into question by new and confusing ideas‚ technologies and world events such as World War I. Virginia Woolf‚ one of the most eminent Modernist writers‚ utilised stream of consciousness‚ for example‚ to convey a character’s interior thoughts
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Modernism is a period in literary history which started around the early 1900s and continued until the early 1940s. Modernist writers in general stood against typical storytelling and ordinary verse from the 19th century. Instead‚ many of them told stories the way they seen it in a state of society during and after World War I. “Modernist literature is characterized chiefly by a rejection of 19th-century traditions and of their consensus between author and reader”- Chris Baldick. In all‚ modernism
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viewing the world as it appears‚ without making any optimistic judgements. Eliot’s poems ‘Journey of the Magi’ (1927) and ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night’ (1920) both explore the fragility of the human mind (an idea streaming directly from the era of Modernist poetry‚ where writers perceived the world as fragmented and alienated)‚ showcasing his original and abstract style of writing and‚ when read into further‚ reflect Eliot’s own values and the commons of society and culture and the time of composition
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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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Reading a modernist novel entails bearing in mind a whole new world of ideas‚ a quite different perspective of giving life to those ideas than other written works and certainly a new aspect of accepting those ideas as a reader. It is not easy to pinpoint modernism’s roots and it is also difficult to say exactly what it expresses. However‚ one thing that is clearly proved in a modernist novel is the fact that there is a change in the understanding of the human self and the interaction between characters
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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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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 and
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