society Who are the most prominent modernist authors? ➢ T.S. Eliot ➢ Virginia Woolf ➢ Ernest Hemingway ➢ William Faulkner ➢ Ezra Pound ➢ James Joyce ➢ W.B. Yeats ➢ F. Scott Fitzgerald* While Fitzgerald wrote during the modernist era and while he uses themes of disillusionment‚ he tends to retain a more classic style than those of his contemporaries. What are some stylistic features of modernist literature? ➢ a radical disruption
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1827-29). Encouraged by so many changes‚ early modernist writers had a utopian view of the future (“modernism”). However‚ their optimist was shattered. From 1914 to 1918‚ Europe lost a generation of young men to the First World War. The times were new‚ and they required a new art‚ one that could speak meaningfully to such a tumultuous age. Modernist poetry attempted to provide a voice to the bewildered West during the first half of the 20th century. Modernist poets sought to account for the rapid changes
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saying‚ "Beyond the pale". This metaphoric meaning represents modernists standing outside the conformist restrictions of law‚ behavior‚ and social class- in a sense‚ beyond the pale. Modernists wanted to expand their dimensions and represent life in a different way. They were very skeptical of the Victorian age because they did not believe it was possible to have unity in all the world which was what Victorian literature had portrayed. Modernists saw life as a series of non-ordinary actions that were uncontrollable
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exploration of certain themes such as alienation and paralysis. Much of what modern writers wanted to do was to challenge the status quo. Also‚ Modernism as a literary movement is a reaction to the emergence of city life as a central force in society. Modernist wanted to establish a new styles and forms‚ which move away of the old one. They confirm of impression and personality and they include point of view‚ clear to the scene. Also‚ they issue the nature‚ status and rules. In modern literature refused
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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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Modernism and Modernism and Postmodernism andrzej gasiorek and peter boxall Downloaded from http://ywcct.oxfordjournals.org/ at Social Science Baha on June 1‚ 2012 3 This chapter deals with work published in the field of modernism and postmodernism in 2006 and is divided into two sections: 1. Modernism; 2. Postmodernism. 1. Modernism In the course of the last three years‚ our reading of published work on modernism and postmodernism has thrown up various recurring issues. It would be exaggerating
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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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