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    Notes on Modernism

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    Other nodernism terms Expressionism Presented a wildly distorted and symbolic world to reflect the feelings and emotions of the character or author  Expressionism Authors include Kafka‚ T.S. Eliot‚ Joyce‚ Ralph Ellison  Imagism Rejected sentimentality and cloudy verbiage and aimed for new clarity in short lyrical poems. They believed images carry the poem. Meaning happens in the air.  Imagism There were four basic rules of the movement: 1. use the common language of speech 2.

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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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    (and even life itself) had become outdated in light of the new economic‚ social and political circumstances of a by now fully industrialized society. Amid rapid social change and significant developments in science (including the social sciences)‚ modernists found themselves alienated from what might be termed Victorian morality and convention. They duly set about searching for radical responses to the radical changes occurring around them‚ affirming mankind’s power to shape and influence his environment

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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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    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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    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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    Modernism is a time that is marked by a strong and intentional break with tradition. During this break it includes a strong reaction against established religious‚ political and social views. Modernist were more concerned about themselves with the subconscious and believed the world was created in the act of perceiving. Also meaning the world is what we say it is (Modernism PPT). The story I will be using is Barn Burning by William Faulkner. In this story I found two examples of modernism one was

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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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    Wolfgang Sievers and Max Dupain are two of Australia’s most renowned Modernist photographers. Their photographs reflected significant changes in the world including technology‚ ideas and the modernist aesthetic applied to Photography. In this regard‚ the photograph Gear for Mining Industry‚ created by Wolfgang Sievers has been compared with the Rescue and Resuscitation by Max Dupain‚ of which both photographs reflect the modernist aesthetic in their works. When comparing the work of Wolfgang Sievers

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    The short pieces Monday and Tuesday by Virginia Woolf and A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway are both proper examples of Modernist writing. Generally‚ the two stories contain very ambiguous‚ or seemingly non-existent‚ themes‚ which complement their pieces. The authors both achieve this by not really having an obvious protagonist‚ having this character be without motive or a subjective opinion of their situation‚ and finishing the piece with unresolved ending and meaning. Virginia Woolf’s

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