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    Modernism Outline

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    The Moderns 1914-1939 The American Dream: Pursuit of a Promise Modernism called for bold experimentation and wholesale rejection of traditional themes and styles. America is considered a land of new Eden: a land of beauty‚ bounty‚ and unlimited promise. The American Dream is based on optimism‚ opportunity‚ progress. A Crack in a the World: Breakdown of Beliefs and Traditions The center of literary life had shifted from New England and spread across America. Two new theories‚ Marxism and psychoanalysis

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    Modernism in Prufrock

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    Modernism refers to the artistic and philosophical movement that occurred in the nineteenth century; the movement challenged past ideas and concepts. T.S Eliot is considered as one of the twentieth century’s major poets; his poem ‘the love song of j. Alfred Prufrock’ has gone down as one of the major works of the Modernist movement. ‘Prufrock’ is a dramatic monologue that follows a man striving for meaning in a suddenly industrial modern road‚ typical themes of modernism. The isolation and displacement

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    Dada and Modernism.

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    “The beginnings of Dada were not the beginnings of art‚ but disgust.”1 Modernist movements rejected traditional art styles‚ turning against the classical‚ more formal aesthetics in exchange for newer‚ more abstract ways of viewing the world. The emergence of Dada as an anti-art movement was described by Kleiner as: "a phenomenon bursting forth in the midst of the economic and moral crisis [of war-torn Europe]‚ a savior‚ a monster‚ which would lay waste to everything in its path... a systematic

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    his ideas about post-modernism. In this essay‚ lyotard strongly doubts the idea of Habermas about the incomplete project of modernity. He disagrees with habermas in his attempt to bridge the gap between cognitive‚ ethical‚ and political discourse and opening a way to a unity of experience. He opines that Habermas ideas of the writers getting back into the bosom of community and society is ill one. This kind of writing that Habermas favours is realism. But Lyotard says realism intends to avoid the

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    Concepts of Modernism

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    Modernism: * Chaotic society due to the first world war * First called ‘avant-garde’‚ artists (such as musical writers‚ artists‚ poets‚ etc.) saw themselves as alienated from the establishment and aimed to shock and challenge existing social conventions by being chaotic‚ obscure and abtract. * Modernism is a movement that breaks away from classical and traditional forms. Creating different perspectives by breaking boundaries. It’s constantly changing and breaks away from the Victorian

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    Realism Essay Throughout the span of humanity‚ we have been known for our many intriguing emotions and traits. Twain’s “The Lowest Animal‚” states that our greed‚ rage‚ and lust for power make us seem below animals. Although humans are quite capable of kindness and compassion‚ Twain is correct in that humans are prone to let their negative traits be prevalent. People’s ability to show hate and discriminate has unfortunately been a staple in human history. Pre-1954‚ in American culture‚ it was completely

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    An Analysis of Romanticism and Realism Jennifer Abernathy Western Governor’s University An Analysis of Romanticism and Realism The Romantic period of art began in the late 18th century and continued midway through the 19th century. The French Revolution had begun and there was much social unrest across Europe at the time. Big industries‚ owned by the wealthy upper class‚ were beginning to appear. People were becoming increasing disappointed in concepts of the Enlightenment

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    Modernism Vs Postmodernism In the 19th and 20th centuries‚ there were two major movements in the visual fine arts‚ which are Modernism and Postmodernism. Some people believe that postmodernism was a response to modernism and therefore consider them as two aspects of the same movement. The relationship between modernism and postmodernism is often complicated as both genres share certain similarities as well as differences. In this essay‚ we will discuss how they are similarities and

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    Case of Dr. Jekyll and 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

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    Literary realism is the trend‚ beginning with mid nineteenth-century French literature and extending to late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century authors‚ towards depictions of contemporary life and society as it was‚ or is. In the spirit of general "realism‚" Realist authors opted for depictions of everyday and banal activities and experiences‚ instead of a romanticized or similarly stylized presentation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_realism Realism  Even though there are rumblings

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