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 • 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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focused on the birth of the modern world. Describe in detail 3 key cultural‚ scientific‚ philosophical or political dimensions of the Enlightenment and 3 key aspects of the later Modernist movement. In your conclusion‚ compare the Enlightenment with Modernism. How were these movements similar and different? How did they shape modern Western culture? 2. The French Revolution was perhaps the single most important geopolitical event of the 18th and 19th centuries. Drawing on your secondary and primary
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“Modernism was a colorful trend‚ it manifested in a different way in many national cinemas. For example the French new wave become famous for its playfulness‚ Italian post-neorealist for the alienation of its neurotic characters‚ the Czechoslovak new wave for its grotesque kitchen sink realism‚ Polish cinema for its historism and the Hungarian new wave for its parabolic stories. But even though its diverse national versions‚ Modernism was an international phenomenon
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One of the best parts of working on exhibitions drawn from the ZMA’s extensive permanent collection is the opportunity it provides for a look at some of the hidden gems at the museum. During the preparation of Sketching American Modernism‚ I discovered a painting that captured my interest. The work was the Portrait of Mrs. Helen McCoy Storer‚ c. 1910 by Charles Alden Gray (1857-1933). While arguably not by one of the most well-known artists in our collection‚ it was‚ at that moment‚ the most intriguing
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Gabriel Josipovici’s scathing tone throughout What Ever Happened to Modernism refreshes readers who find most literature hollow and the modern social landscape overly accepting. Near the end of a prolific career in both fiction and non-fiction‚ Josipovici writes from the perspective of a well-read scholar in his field; his vast knowledge provides him with endless opportunities for analysis. His masterful command of language and his interpretive genius are both a blessing and a curse‚ however. These
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“The importance of Modernism was in its ability to unite the masses by illuminating common feelings of disillusionment and rebellion through artistic forms.” Argue with reference to two poems of T.S Eliot and one additional text of you choosing. Rebellion and Disillusionment were fundamental feelings expressed by Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They came about as a result of a myriad of factors including; industrialisation‚ urbanisation‚ technological advances‚ militaristic
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Sociocultural Tradition According to Theorizing Communication‚ "Society would be impossible without communication… communication would be impossible without or severely limited in the absence of shared patterns of action and meaning that enable mutual understanding- that is‚ in the absence of society and a common culture…. sociocultural approaches range across fundamentally different theoretical styles" (Craig‚ Muller 2007). The main idea of the sociocultural tradition is communication produces
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What is Modernism? This term was usually referred to as the literature era of the 1920’s. During the “Roaring Twenties”‚ as most would say‚ was the time of flappers‚ gangsters‚ and the beginning of some of the most renowned literature known to the United States. One of the famous books written in this time was The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. Included in the Modernism Era were the focus on trends and the extreme effect materialism makes on the society of the 1920’s. With
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