Modernism The Modern Novel As T.S. Eliot once said‚ “Every age gets the art it deserves and every age must accept the art it gets. A complex age like the 20th century‚ upset by two World Wars and marked by unrest and ferments‚ couldn’t as result produce anything but complex art‚ mainly resulting‚ more than in any previous age‚ from experimentation. The search for new forms of expression‚ which affected all branches of literature‚ was carried on first of all in fiction and novel. So far novelists
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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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The Roots of Modernism the word ‘modern’ is used to refer to contemporan object or subject matters.In the history of art‚ however‚ the term ‘modern’ is used to refer to a period dating from roughly the 1860s through the 1970s and describes the style and ideology of art produced during that era.The term ‘modernism’ is also used to refer to the art of the modern period. More specifically‚ ‘modernism’ can be thought of as referring to the philosophy of modern art. The roots of modernism lie much deeper
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Definition of Modernism in Fiction Modernism‚ in literature‚ can be seen as a shift in focus to the unassociated introspective reflection of characters in such texts as Go Tell It On The Mountain‚ by James Baldwin‚ Miss Lonelyhearts‚ by Nathanael West and The Catcher in the Rye‚ by J.D. Salinger. This is a revision from the previous focal point of exterior events and places in correlation with the character’s reflections. Emphasis is placed on review upon feelings and thoughts‚ and even conversations
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intentions and choices may be shaped by the innovations of other artists‚ for example‚ if the artists feel the same way about political‚ social and cultural issues. Concepts are usually reused but shown in different ways. Chosen artists that display this theory and have affected the development of modern art in particular are‚ Edouard Manet‚ Paul Cezanne‚ Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. Manet (b.1832-1883) focused on light and shadow‚ rebelling against the idea of ‘ideal art’ created by the academies.
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easiest way of understanding the ideology of modernism is to focus on a novel written by one of the most famous modernists concentrating on the techniques and the basic general ideas that are applied in it. Such a famous modernist that contributed to emphasizing modernism as one of the major movements of the 20th century is considered to be James Joyce. His modernist novel Dubliners offers a tremendous possibility of pinpointing the elements of modernism through analysing its basic themes‚ narrative
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Fundamentalism v. Modernism Fundamentalism beliefs‚ strictly following the Bible‚ creationism‚ nativism‚ and old values‚ clashed against Modernist ideas‚ primarily evolution and application of science‚ in the early 1900s due to differences of opinions. Four issues that reflect this ideological clash are the rise of the KKK‚ who harbored Fundamentalist and nativist beliefs; the Scopes trial‚ which pitted the curriculum of John T. Scopes and evolution against Fundamentalism creationism; the Sacco
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Modernism • The period was marked by sudden and unexpected breaks with traditional ways of viewing and interacting with the world. Experimentation and individualism became virtues‚ where in the past they were often heartily discouraged. Modernism was set in motion‚ in one sense‚ through a series of cultural shocks. The 1st of these great shocks was WWI • Preoccupation of Modernism is with the inner self and consciousness. • Modernist cares rather little for Nature‚ Being‚ or the overarching structures
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Modernism as a movement was a response to the horrors of World War-I and to the rising industrial societies and growth of cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It challenged the harmony and the rationality of the Enlightenment and sought to reinvent art and literature of the age. To do so‚ it broke away from the works of the past and conventions that were earlier held at a pedestal. The conception that reality could be easily be comprehended was replaced by modernism with a more
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Through the controversy of romanticism and modernism in Dover Beach‚ Arnold allows for readers to question the importance of life and what it means to fulfill human destiny while harnessing the quintessence of who you are. Arnold gives vivid imagery of the beautiful coastline bordering France to present the challenging contrast that we have the choice to either find fear in the future because of its uncertainty‚ or to embrace the beauty of the present because it is all we have in each moment. In
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