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| define modernism in literature: Modernism Tim Armstrong, 2005-06-17 This volume combines a clear overview for those with no prior knowledge or experience of modernism with a subtle argument that will appeal to higher level undergraduates and scholars. |
| define modernism in literature: The Concept of Modernism Astradur Eysteinsson, 2018-07-05 The term modernism is central to any discussion of twentieth-century literature and critical theory. Astradur Eysteinsson here maintains that the concept of modernism does not emerge directly from the literature it subsumes, but is in fact a product of critical practices relating to nontraditional literature. Intervening in these practices, and correlating them with modernist works and with modern literary theory, Eysteinsson undertakes a comprehensive reexamination of the idea of modernism. Eysteinsson critically explores various manifestations of modernism in a rich array of American, British, and European literature, criticism, and theory. He first examines many modernist paradigms, detecting in them a conflict between modernism's culturally subversive potential and its relatively conservative status as a formalist project. He then considers these paradigms as interpretations-and fabrications-of literary history. Seen in this light, modernism both signals a historical change on the literary scene and implies the context of that change. Laden with the implications of tradition and modernity, modernism fills its major function: that of highlighting and defining the complex relations between history and postrealist literature. Eysteinsson focuses on the ways in which the concept of modernism directs our understanding of literature and literary history and influences our judgment of experimental and postrealist works in literature and art. He discusses in detail the relation of modernism to the key concepts postmodernism, the avant-garde, and realism. Enacting a crisis of subject and reference, modernism is not so much a form of discourse, he asserts, as its interruption-a possible other modernity that reveals critical aspects of our social and linguistic experience in Western culture. Comparatists, literary theorists, cultural historians, and others interested in twentieth-century literature and art will profit from this provocative book. |
| define modernism in literature: Modernism: A Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler, 2010-07-29 A compact introduction to modernism--why it began, what it is, and how it hasshaped virtually all aspects of 20th and 21st century life |
| define modernism in literature: High Modernism Joshua Kavaloski, 2014 A provocative new study that identifies a deep structure -- that of the political body -- in Frost''s poetry. |
| define modernism in literature: The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory Ellen Rooney, 2006-07-06 Feminism has dramatically influenced the way literary texts are read, taught and evaluated. Feminist literary theory has deliberately transgressed traditional boundaries between literature, philosophy and the social sciences in order to understand how gender has been constructed and represented through language. This lively and thought-provoking Companion presents a range of approaches to the field. Some of the essays demonstrate feminist critical principles at work in analysing texts, while others take a step back to trace the development of a particular feminist literary method. The essays draw on a range of primary material from the medieval period to postmodernism and from several countries, disciplines and genres. Each essay suggests further reading to explore this field further. This is the most accessible guide available both for students of literature new to this developing field, and for students of gender studies and readers interested in the interactions of feminism, literary criticism and literature. |
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| define modernism in literature: Modernism, War, and Violence Marina MacKay, 2017-05-18 The modernist period was an era of world war and violent revolution. Covering a wide range of authors from Joseph Conrad and Thomas Hardy at the beginning of the period to Elizabeth Bowen and Samuel Beckett at the end, this book situates modernism's extraordinary literary achievements in their contexts of historical violence, while surveying the ways in which the relationships between modernism and conflict have been understood by readers and critics over the past fifty years. Ranging from the colonial conflicts of the late 19th century to the world wars and the civil wars in between, and concluding with the institutionalization of modernism in the Cold War, Modernism, War, and Violence provides a starting point for readers who are new to these topics and offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the field for a more advanced audience. |
| define modernism in literature: Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy Houston A. Baker, Houston A. Baker, Jr., 1995-11-15 Traces the history of black studies as an academic discipline. Looks specifically at the incidence of urban rap music and its influence on the young urban black population. Highlights the spate of attacks in New York's Central Park in 1990 and the consequent legal action against rap band 2 Live Crew. |
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| define modernism in literature: The Short Oxford History of English Literature Andrew Sanders, 2000-01 A guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. The volume includes information on Old and Middle English, the Renaissance, Shakespeare, the 17th and 18th centuries, the Romantics, Victorian and Edwardian literature, Modernism, and post-war writing. |
| define modernism in literature: Travel, Modernism and Modernity Robert Burden, 2016-03-09 Focusing on the significance of travel in Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, Robert Burden shows how travel enabled a new consciousness of mobility and borders during the modernist period. For these authors, Burden suggests, travel becomes a narrative paradigm and dominant trope by which they explore questions of identity and otherness related to deep-seated concerns with the crisis of national cultural identity. He pays particular attention to the important distinction between travel and tourism, at the same time that he attends to the slippage between seeing and sightseeing, between the local character and the stereotype, between art and kitsch, and between older and newer ways of storytelling in the representational crisis of modernism. Burden argues that the greater awareness of cultural difference that characterizes both the travel writing and fiction of these expatriate writers became a defining feature of literary modernism, resulting in a consciousness of cultural difference that challenged the ethnographic project of empire. |
| define modernism in literature: Romantic Moderns Alexandra Harris, 2015-02-01 While the battles for modern art and society were being fought in France and Spain, it has seemed a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea-shops. In this multi-awardwinning book now available in paperback Alexandra Harris tells a different story. In the 1930s and 1940s, artists and writers explored what it meant to be alive in England. Eclectically, passionately, wittily, they showed that the modern need not be at war with the past. Constructivists and conservatives could work together, and even the Bauhaus émigré, László Moholy-Nagy, was beguiled into taking photographs for Betjemans nostalgic Oxford University Chest. This modern English renaissance was shared by writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics, tourists and composers. John Piper, Virginia Woolf, Florence White, Christopher Tunnard, Evelyn Waugh, E. M. Forster and the Sitwells are part of the story, along with Bill Brandt, Graham Sutherland, Eric Ravilious and Cecil Beaton. |
| define modernism in literature: Cold Modernism Jessica Burstein, 2012 Explores a significant but overlooked aspect of early twentieth-century modernism, one that focuses on surface appearance rather than interiority or psychological depth. Looks at the writers Wyndham Lewis and Mina Loy, the artists Balthus and Hans Bellmer, and the fashion designer Coco Chanel--Provided by publisher. |
| define modernism in literature: Philosophy and Literary Modernism Robert P. McParland, 2018-10-01 Philosophy and Literary Modernism probes the relationship of authors with the thought of their time. The authors studied here include Conrad, Eliot, Faulkner, Forster, Hemingway, Hesse, Kafka, Joyce, Lawrence, Williams, and Woolf, among others. Literary modernism engaged with explorations of literary form, language, ways of knowing the world, identity, commitment, chance, truth, and beauty. The book considers how writers participated in the intellectual spirit of their time and with the thought of philosophers like Henri Bergson, G.E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. |
| define modernism in literature: Architecture and Modern Literature David Anton Spurr, 2017-05-09 Architecture and Modern Literature explores the representation and interpretation of architectural space in modern literature from the early nineteenth century to the present, with the aim of showing how literary production and architectural construction are related as cultural forms in the historical context of modernity. In addressing this subject, it also examines the larger questions of the relation between literature and architecture and the extent to which these two arts define one another in the social and philosophical contexts of modernity. Architecture and Modern Literature will serve as a foundational introduction to the emerging interdisciplinary study of architecture and literature. David Spurr addresses a broad range of material, including literary, critical, and philosophical works in English, French, and German, and proposes a new historical and theoretical overview of this area, in which modern forms of meaning in architecture and literature are related to the discourses of being, dwelling, and homelessness. |
| define modernism in literature: Reading Fragments and Fragmentation in Modernist Literature Rebecca Varley-Winter, 2019-09 As a critical term, 'fragment' is more of a starting-point than a definition. 'Fragment' and 'fragmentation' have been used to describe damaged manuscripts; drafts; notes; subverted grammatical structures; the emergence of vers libre from formal verse; texts without linear plots; translations; quotations; and works titled 'Fragment' regardless of how formally complete they might appear. This book offers a phenomenological reading of modernist literary fragments, arguing that fragments create states of conflicted embodiment in which mind and body cannot cleanly separate. Drawing on the concept of aestheticism as an overstimulated body, each chapter connects fragments to experiences of physical and emotional ambiguity. The author introduces fragmentation as an aspect of what Julia Kristeva and Helene Cixous term 'ecriture feminine', and offers new readings of the texts that Stephane Mallarme struggled to finish. |
| define modernism in literature: Modernism, Imperialism and the Historical Sense Paul Stasi, 2012-07-30 This book provides a re-reading of canonical modernism, connecting it to imperialism without conflating it with imperialist practices. |
| define modernism in literature: Modernism the Lure of Heresy Peter Gay, 2008 This is a brilliant, provocative long essay on the rise and fall and survival of modernism, by the English-languages' greatest living cultural historian. |
| define modernism in literature: A Genealogy of Modernism Michael Harry Levenson, 1986-06-27 A Geneology of Modernism is a study of literary transition in the first two decades of the twentieth-century, a period of extraordinary ferment and great accomplishment, during which the avant-garde gradually consolidated a secure place within English culture. Michael Levenson analyses that complex process by following the successive phases of a literary movement - Impressionist, Imagist, Vorticist, Classicist - as it attempted to formulate the principles on which a new aesthetic might be founded. The emphasis here falls on the ideology of modernism, but throughout the book the ideological question is tied on the one hand to specific literary works and on the other to general movements in philosophy and the fine arts. The major figures under discussion, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and T. S. Elliot, are placed in relation to thinkers who have been largely neglected in the history of modernism: Max Stirner, Wilhelm Worringer, Pierre Lasserre, Allen Upward, and Hilaire Belloc. Levenson thus situates the emergence of a modernist aesthetic within the context of literary theory, literary practice, and cultural history. |
| define modernism in literature: Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and other Essays Hans Walter Gabler, 2018-02-20 This collection of essays from world-renowned scholar Hans Walter Gabler contains writings from a decade and a half of retirement spent exploring textual criticism, genetic criticism, and literary criticism. In these sixteen stimulating contributions, he develops theories of textual criticism and editing that are inflected by our advance into the digital era; structurally analyses arts of composition in literature and music; and traces the cultural implications discernible in book design, and in the canonisation of works of literature and their authors. Distinctive and ambitious, these essays move beyond the concerns of the community of critics and scholars. Gabler responds innovatively to the issues involved and often endeavours to re-think their urgencies by bringing together the orthodox tenets of different schools of textual criticism. He moves between a variety of topics, ranging from fresh genetic approaches to the work of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, to significant contributions to the theorisation of scholarly editing in the digital age. Written in Gabler’s fluent style, these rich and elegant compositions are essential reading for literary and textual critics, scholarly editors, readers of James Joyce, New Modernism specialists, and all those interested in textual scholarship and digital editing under the umbrella of Digital Humanities. |
| define modernism in literature: Bodies of Modernism Maren Linett, 2017 Reveals the links, both positive and negative, between disabled bodies and aspects of modernism and modernity through readings of a wide range of literary texts |
| define modernism in literature: A Poetics of Postmodernism Linda Hutcheon, 2003-09-02 First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
| define modernism in literature: Modernism, Science, and Technology Mark S. Morrisson, 2016-11-17 From quantum physics and genetics to psychology and the social sciences, from the development of atomic weapons to the growing mass media of film and radio, the early 20th century was a period of intense scientific and technological change. Modernism, Science, and Technology surveys the scientific contexts of writers from H.G. Wells and Gertrude Stein to James Joyce and Virginia Woolf and the ways in modernist writers responded to these paradigm shifts. Introducing key concepts from science studies and their implications for the study of modernist literature, the book includes chapters covering the physical sciences, mathematics, life sciences, social sciences and 'pseudosciences'. Including a timeline of key developments and guides to further reading, this is an essential guide to students and researchers studying the topic at all levels. |
| define modernism in literature: Modernism/Postmodernism Peter Brooker, 2014-09-25 The concepts of 'Modernism' and 'Postmodernism' constitute the single most dominant issue of twentieth-century literature and culture and are the cause of much debate. In this influential volume, Peter Brooker presents some of the key viewpoints from a variety of major critics and sets these additionally alongside challenging arguments from Third World, Black and Feminist perspectives. His excellent Introduction and detailed headnotes for each section and essay provide an indispensable guide to interpreting the many different opinions, and prove to be valuable contributions in their own right. |
| define modernism in literature: After the Great Divide Andreas Huyssen, 1986 One of the most comprehensive and intelligent postmodern critics of art and literature, Huyssen collects here a series of his essays on pomo . . . —Village Voice Literary Supplement . . . his work remains alert to the problematic relationship obtaining between marxisms and poststructuralisms. —American Literary History . . . challenging and astute. —World Literature Today Huyssen's level-headed account of this controversial constellation of critical voices brings welcome clarification to today's murky haze of cultural discussion and proves definitively that commentary from the tradition of the German Left has an indispensable role to play in contemporary criticism. —The German Quarterly . . . we will certainly have, after reading this book, a deeper understanding of the forces that have led up to the present and of the possibilities still open to us. —Critical Texts . . . a rich, multifaceted study. —The Year's Work in English Studies Huyssen argues that postmodernism cannot be regarded as a radical break with the past, as it is deeply indebted to that other trend within the culture of modernity—the historical avant-garde. |
| define modernism in literature: Make It New Kurt Heinzelman, 2003 What was Modernism, and why does it still matter? The term itself first gained currency in the 1930s, describing a kind of art that already may have peaked, some would say as early as 1922. Whatever its ups and downs in its own time, as the novelist Julian Barnes claims in one of the twenty essays commissioned for the present volume, Modernism never vanished. It remains our immovable feast. Modernism was international in scope; it left its mark on all genres, from literature and painting to opera, dance, and architecture; it pushed the boundaries of what was artistically possible and aesthetically important; and finally, for all its destructive urges which it shared with the century itself, it was also celebrative. This book is a response to the exhibition of the same name that opened at the Harry Ransom Center in October 2003. It includes original essays by such noted writers and artists as Russell Banks, Anita Desai, David Douglas Duncan, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Penelope Lively, which offer fresh perspectives on important Modernist figures, including William Gaddis, Ezra Pound, William Faulkner, E. M. Forster, Paul Robeson, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier. In addition, essays by leading scholars in literature and art history focus on specific artifacts included in the exhibit. As the Center's Director, Thomas F. Staley, puts it in the Foreword, Ours is an attempt not of definition but of discovery and rediscovery. Book and exhibition permit both reader and viewer to experience the textures, structures, and resonances which made the first part of the twentieth century so innovative that its art is still virtually synonymous with what newness means. |
| define modernism in literature: The Cannibal: A Novel John Hawkes, 1962-01-17 The Cannibal was John Hawkes's first novel, published in 1949. No synopsis conveys the quality of this now famous novel about an hallucinated Germany in collapse after World War II. John Hawkes, in his search for a means to transcend outworn modes of fictional realism, has discovered a a highly original technique for objectifying the perennial degradation of mankind within a context of fantasy.... Nowhere has the nightmare of human terror and the deracinated sensibility been more consciously analyzed than in The Cannibal. Yet one is aware throughout that such analysis proceeds only in terms of a resolutely committed humanism. - Hayden Carruth |
| define modernism in literature: The Modes of Modern Writing David Lodge, 2015-10-29 The Modes of Modern Writing tackles some of the fundamental questions we all encounter when studying or reading literature, such as: what is literature? What is realism? What is relationship between form and content? And what dictates the shifts in literary fashions and tastes? In answering these questions, the book examines texts by a wide range of modern novelists and poets, including James Joyce, T.S.Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett and Philip Larkin, and draws on the work of literary theorists from Roman Jakobson to Roland Barthes. Written in Lodge's typically accessible style this is essential reading for students and lovers of literature at any level. The Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a new Foreword/Afterword by the author. |
| define modernism in literature: Writing in Limbo Simon Gikandi, 2018-03-15 In Simon Gikandi’s view, Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature more generally negotiate an uneasy relationship with the concepts of modernism and modernity—a relationship in which the Caribbean writer, unable to escape a history encoded by Europe, accepts the challenge of rewriting it. Drawing on contemporary deconstructionist theory, Gikandi looks at how such Caribbean writers as George Lamming, Samuel Selvon, Alejo Carpentier, C. L. R. James, Paule Marshall, Merle Hodge, Zee Edgell, and Michelle Cliff have attempted to confront European modernism. |
| define modernism in literature: A Singular Modernity Fredric Jameson, 2014-06-17 The concepts of modernity and modernism are amongst the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. In this intervention, Fredric Jameson-perhaps the most influential and persuasive theorist of postmodernity-excavates and explores these notions in a fresh and illuminating manner.The extraordinary revival of discussions of modernity, as well as of new theories of artistic modernism, demands attention in its own right. It seems clear that the (provisional) disappearance of alternatives to capitalism plays its part in the universal attempt to revive 'modernity' as a social ideal. Yet the paradoxes of the concept illustrate its legitimate history and suggest some rules for avoiding its misuse as well. In this major interpretation of the problematic, Jameson concludes that both concepts are tainted, but nonetheless yield clues as to the nature of the phenomena they purported to theorize. His judicious and vigilant probing of both terms-which can probably not be banished at this late date-helps us clarify our present political and artistic situations. |
| define modernism in literature: The Mental Life of Modernism Samuel Jay Keyser, 2020-03-03 An argument that Modernism is a cognitive phenomenon rather than a cultural one. At the beginning of the twentieth century, poetry, music, and painting all underwent a sea change. Poetry abandoned rhyme and meter; music ceased to be tonally centered; and painting no longer aimed at faithful representation. These artistic developments have been attributed to cultural factors ranging from the Industrial Revolution and the technical innovation of photography to Freudian psychoanalysis. In this book, Samuel Jay Keyser argues that the stylistic innovations of Western modernism reflect not a cultural shift but a cognitive one. Behind modernism is the same cognitive phenomenon that led to the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century: the brain coming up against its natural limitations. Keyser argues that the transformation in poetry, music, and painting (the so-called sister arts) is the result of the abandonment of a natural aesthetic based on a set of rules shared between artist and audience, and that this is virtually the same cognitive shift that occurred when scientists abandoned the mechanical philosophy of the Galilean revolution. The cultural explanations for Modernism may still be relevant, but they are epiphenomenal rather than causal. Artists felt that traditional forms of art had been exhausted, and they began to resort to private formats—Easter eggs with hidden and often inaccessible meaning. Keyser proposes that when artists discarded their natural rule-governed aesthetic, it marked a cognitive shift; general intelligence took over from hardwired proclivity. Artists used a different part of the brain to create, and audiences were forced to play catch up. |
| define modernism in literature: Make It New Ezra Pound, 1999-01 |
| define modernism in literature: The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism Brian McHale, 2015-06-25 The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture - high and low, avant-garde and popular, famous and obscure - across a range of fields, from architecture and visual art to fiction, poetry, and drama. It deftly maps postmodernism's successive historical phases, from its emergence in the 1960s to its waning in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Weaving together multiple strands of postmodernism - people and places from Andy Warhol, Jefferson Airplane and magical realism, to Jean-François Lyotard, Laurie Anderson and cyberpunk - this book creates a rich picture of a complex cultural phenomenon that continues to exert an influence over our present 'post-postmodern' situation. Comprehensive and accessible, this Introduction is indispensable for scholars, students, and general readers interested in late twentieth-century culture. |
| define modernism in literature: The Cambridge History of Modernism Vincent Sherry, 2017-01-11 This Cambridge History of Modernism is the first comprehensive history of modernism in the distinguished Cambridge Histories series. It identifies a distinctive temperament of 'modernism' within the 'modern' period, establishing the circumstances of modernized life as the ground and warrant for an art that becomes 'modernist' by virtue of its demonstrably self-conscious involvement in this modern condition. Following this sensibility from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, tracking its manifestations across pan-European and transatlantic locations, the forty-three chapters offer a remarkable combination of breadth and focus. Prominent scholars of modernism provide analytical narratives of its literature, music, visual arts, architecture, philosophy, and science, offering circumstantial accounts of its diverse personnel in their many settings. These historically informed readings offer definitive accounts of the major work of twentieth-century cultural history and provide a new cornerstone for the study of modernism in the current century. |
| define modernism in literature: The Modernist Papers Fredric Jameson, 2016-03-08 Cultural critic Fredric Jameson, renowned for his incisive studies of the passage of modernism to postmodernism, returns to the movement that dramatically broke with all tradition in search of progress for the first time since his acclaimed A Singular Modernity . The Modernist Papers is a tour de froce of anlysis and criticism, in which Jameson brings his dynamic and acute thought to bear on the modernist literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Jameson discusses modernist poetics, including intensive discussions of the work of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Wallace Stevens, Joyce, Proust, and Thomas Mann. He explores the peculiarties of the American literary field, taking in William Carlos Williams and the American epic, and examines the language theories of Gertrude Stein. Refusing to see modernism as simply a Western phenomenon he also pays close attention to its Japanese expression; while the complexities of a late modernist representation of twentieth-century politics are articulated in a concluding section on Peter Weiss’s novel The Aesthetics of Resistance. Challenging our previous understanding of the literature of this pperiod, this monumental work will come to be regarded as the classic study of modernism. |
| define modernism in literature: 21st-Century Modernism Majorie Perloff, 2002-02-15 The more radical American poetries of recent decades are held to be a deviation from the true course of poetry. Perloff argues that it is precisely these new poetic experiments that take up the avant-garde project of the great early modernists. |
| define modernism in literature: Modernism and Race Len Platt, 2011-02-24 The 'transnational' turn has transformed modernist studies, challenging Western authority over modernism and positioning race and racial theories at the very centre of how we now understand modern literature. Modernism and Race examines relationships between racial typologies and literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, drawing on fin de siécle versions of anthropology, sociology, political science, linguistics and biology. Collectively, these essays interrogate the anxieties and desires that are expressed in, or projected onto, racialized figures. They include new outlines of how the critical field has developed, revaluations of canonical modernist figures like James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford and Wyndham Lewis, and accounts of writers often positioned at the margins of modernism, such as Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay and the Holocaust writers Solomon Perel and Gisella Perl. This collection by leading scholars of modernism will make an important contribution to a growing field. |
| define modernism in literature: Modernism and Literature Mia Carter, Alan Warren Friedman, 2013 Modernism is a key era in literary studies in which the reading and writing of literature was transformed. The Modernist movement smashed the boundaries of what was perceived as ' literary', with writers abandoning traditional conventions and drawing on a variety of very different influences from art to politics. Modernism is difficult to understand without an awareness of contemporary concerns, and Alan Friedman and Mia Carter offer a comprehensive guide to Modernism:An extensive introduction outlining the history and debates ... |
| define modernism in literature: The Book of Shadows Don Paterson, 2005 Aphorism (n.): a pithy observation which contains a general truth 'All my teachers have been women. Though several men have taken me aside for an hour to tell me things they know' The Book of Shadows contains several hundred reflections and aphorisms on love, God, art, sex, death, work, and the spirit, imagination and conduct of the human animal. Writing with the same mixture of high seriousness, dark humour and lyric precision that define his poetry, Don Paterson has made a book to carry everywhere and open anywhere - to brighten or darken the moment, but always to administer a jolt to the idling mind. 'Falling and flying are near-identical sensations, in all but one final detail. We should remember this when we see those men and women seemingly in love with their own decline' |
| define modernism in literature: The modern tradition Richard Ellmann, 1968 |
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On Modernity in Art and the Modern Theatre.
Modernism: Historical Background. •One way to define Modernism in art in general, including literature, is to say that this movement meant breaking and deviating from old conventions and …
Modernism - eGyanKosh
Modernism as a movement gave men and women the means to tackle a new world that was increasingly getting impatient with traditional mores and beliefs. The term Modernism has …
ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LITERATURE AND …
Literature(1912), enlightens that the human mind is the source of all sciences and arts, it should be clear that psychology, which is the study of psychic processes, can be used to the study of ...
A Modernism Against Maestros: Horacio Quiroga and the …
This multifaceted conception of modernism complicates any attempt to arrive at a single scholarly definition of the period or its literary features. Susan Stanford Friedman addresses the …
Literature THE ERA OF MODERNISM AND JAMES JOYCE’S …
2. Modernism as key period in English Literature Modernism is an artistic movement that also embraces literary genre which is more popular in dominating literary scene. This literary realm, …
From Italy to Harvard: George LaPiana and Catholic …
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Framing African Modernism: A Defining Decade for …
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Contemporaneity of Modernism as an Aesthetic Innovation
modernism as the frame that can help it define its own identity. Contemporary authors reveal their relationship with modernism and contemporary literature demonstrates the recurring presence …
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Part 2: Incorporating ideas from the section “A Dark Vision of Literature,” explain what happened to our happy ending. How is the human condition represented in literature? Define Modernism …
TheAnomaliesofLiterary(Post)Modernism
Isit possible, then, to define modernism without submitting toits own revisionary f(.)rce,aforce that isjustasoften conservative asitis radical, butnonetheless irreducible to amonological …
The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature
the Body in Literature This Companion offers the fi rst systematic analysis of the representation of the body in literature. It historicizes embodiment by charting our evolving ... fi elds of British …
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Characteristics of modernism in english literature pdf. Characteristics of ... Let's explore some of the most significant art movements that define modernism today. Impressionism, for instance, …
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1. a.) Define modernism with adequate literary illustrations from any African novel. (15 marks) b.) Evaluate the major statements by any of the following identity theory. (15 marks) a) Post …
WRITING THE MODERN: THE POLITICS OF MODERNISM
that modernism, "as an ideology dominated by but not specific to the realm of aesthetics, is the inversion (the 'inverted consciousness') of a historically objective 'crisis in representation' …
The study of Modernism is one of the central concerns of
The study of Modernism is one of the central concerns of contemporary literary scholarship; and in it Joyce stands central for several reasons. Whether we define Modernism as a style - an …
Postmodernism: A Biblical and Theological Reflection
postmodernism is the required form of modernism in the late 20th century as it is just an extension of modernism.17 Generally, postmodernism as a period describes the era that followed …
Expanding Modernism: A Review of Peter Kalliney’s …
literature: Casanova, Damrosch, Gilroy, Moretti, Spivak. The questions that these theorists raise about global politics and literature, imperialism, and language drive Kalliney’s interest in …
Pluralism in Postmodern Perspective - JSTOR
of it, any more than I could define modernism itself. For the term has become a current signal of tendencies in theater, dance, music, art, and architecture; in literature and criticism; in …
2. CHAPTER 2 Postmodernism - University of Pretoria
The modernism movement is particularly pertinent to the issue of technology. Modernism has been credited for “incredible technological innovation” (Brown 1995:69). According to Firat and …
Myths and Methods: Modernism through the Long Poem
the movement’s ambition; its problems, modernism’s paradoxes; and its controversies, modernism’s (and modernist studies’) discontents. Neither lyric nor narrative, neither song nor …
INTRODUCTION Stream of consciousness: Meaning - DAV …
The novels for this study: this study aims to study the stream of consciousness style of writing in literature with respect to the two of Joyce’ novels : ‘ Ulysses’ and the ‘ portrait of artist as a …
Kindred - PenguinRandomhouse.com
Part 2: Incorporating ideas from the section “A Dark Vision of Literature,” explain what happened to our happy ending. How is the human condition represented in literature? Define Modernism …
T.S. Eliot: modernist literature, disciplines and the systematic ...
circulation and consumption of modernist literature. But Eliot was far from the only writer in the period to reflect upon the relationships between poetry and science. In 1913 Ezra Pound would …
Modernist Text in Literary of England in the 1920s - IOSR …
literature, as mentioned above, are usually called the term “modernism”. Modernism is, first of all, understood as a set of trends in art, trends and schools that opposed themselves to the …
TRADITION AND MODERNITY IN LITERATURE - JSTOR
The form of literature may, and does often, change. The dialogue between Urvashi and her lover in the Rigveda changed to a full-length play with a complex plot in the Gupta period. The bardic …
Modernisms Literary and Theological - JSTOR
Catholic literature (by which I mean not only the literary writing produced by Catholics but also the institutions and practices that shaped and were shaped by that ... Modernism enters into …
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literature, film, television, and cyberspace – helps audiences both to distance themselves from and to deal with some of the key underlying problems ... Modernism (Literature)–History and …
