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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literature‚ and music; film; time and memory; space‚ the city‚ and landscape; the sublime; and the relation between aesthetics and politics. -Jean-Francois Lyotard is a French philosopher best known for 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
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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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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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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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Amelia Baumgardner FYS 1399 Modernism Midterm Modernism In it’s broadest sense‚ Modernism is modern thought or reason. More specifically‚ Modernism explains the adventurous new ideals of society that originate from the sweeping and widespread changes of Western culture in the earliest portion of the 20th century. In other words‚ Modernism was a rebellion from the conventional pillars of realism. Modernism seems to snub many of the overhanging values of the Enlightenment‚ such as religion‚ as well
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Modernism in Chinese Culture Marco Polo the great explorer of the 13th and 14th century set out on a journey through the Mongol Empire during which he wrote The Book of Ser Marco Polo. During his journey he documented the marvels of his travels such as the city of Kinsay(Hangchow)‚ a large city inherited by the Yuan Dynasty after great conquests. Polo expressed the city as a “City of Heaven” because of its modernism and elegance while traveling through the city. The significance of The Book of Ser
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Morton Professor Hall English 379 November 6‚ 2014 Modernism: Sexual Identity Realism‚ naturalism‚ and modernism were all literary techniques used between the 1940’s and 1960’s. McDowell and Spillers define these three techniques as‚ “realism is taken to refer broadly to a faithful representation of material “reality”; naturalism‚ to a franker‚ harsher treatment of the power of the social environment cum jungle on indivisual psychology; and modernism‚ to a break with the familiar functions of language
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Modernism is defined as the series of reforming cultural movements in music‚ art‚ architecture‚ the applied arts‚ and literature that occurred in the three decades before 1914. In the modern era‚ not only did things change as far as technology with the Industrial Revolution‚ but also with people themselves with awareness and a change in values. During the modern era‚ civilization was founded on scientific knowledge of the world and rational knowledge of values‚ which places the highest premium
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