its importance for course themes. Review the PPTs on Blackboard. Key Terms (50 pts): You will be asked to identify 5 of 8 terms which will be chosen from among the following‚ providing appropriate historical context and explaining why each is important to the broader themes of our course. Orientalism “Scramble for Africa” Opium War Usman dan Fodio Mfecane Wahhabism Simon Bolívar Sino-Japanese War Muhammad Ali Toussaint L’Ouverture Social Darwinism “The Wealth of Nations” Tabula
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Mr. Hyde and Modernism in The Metamorphosis Victorianism is about how the individual could improve the society. They believed that a good individual could make the society better as a whole and therefore improve life. Victorians focused on science and the desire for extremely realistic portrayal of life in both literature and art. Some aspects of Victorian thinking were retained while others were discarded in a new movement called Modernism. Modernists focus on the individual but have the view that
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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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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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Some would describe modernism to be the rejection of convention in the modern period. Henri Matisse is an artist who worked through the modern period and his work exemplifies the characteristics that apply to the attempted definitions of modernism and modernity. ‘To pick out a work of art as exemplifying modernism is to see it as belonging to a special category within the western culture of the modern period’ (1) So what is it that defines certain works of art and that places them in this category
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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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Modernism kills humanity………. You who think the meaning of life is in the click of the keys on your laptop‚ the beep of your pager in the firm grasp of business’s opponents handshake. You who thinks life means clinching contracts or looking the best in your friends party. will you think the same for thirty‚ forty years? Wheeling for the breath in the death bed. which thing will give us comfort?.designer clothes stashed away at your back of your closet or the quiet satisfaction at the life well
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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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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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Demonstrate your understanding of the context and values of Modernism by close analysis of the techniques and concerns of Modernism that are reflected in one poem and one short story. Modernism as a movement is an artistic reaction to the conventional art and literature of mid- to late 19th century. World War I introduced advanced technology and the introduction of industrialisation provoked Modernist writers to express their concerns about the changing society and the complexities it of through
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