Modernism
What is Modernism
In the arts and liturature, modernism rejects the ideology of realism and rejects enlightenment thinking as well as the idea of a all-powerful creator. It thus marks a distinctive break with Victorian bourgeois morality and rejects nineteenth-century optimism.
Time Period
Modernist work began to appear in Britain and America in the 1890's, but was not more widely seen until the early 1900's. It then began to gain popularity but less of if was seen after 1956.
Famous Modernist Authors
T.S. Eliot
James Joyce
Virginia Woolf
W.B. Yeats
Ezra Pound
Gertrude Stein
James Joyce
Virginia Woolf
W.B. Yeats
Ezra Pound
Gertrude Stein
Literary Focus
The literary focus for modernism is on the character. In these literary works, the characters had hidden plots or hidden agendas that they had to acheive, this created a chaotic feeling that would seem to match the feeling the authors felt in the outside world around the time of World War 1.
Techniques
Free indirect speech
Stream of consciousness
Wide use of classical allusions
Personification
Hyperbole
Comparison
Quotation
Pun
Satire
Irony
Stream of consciousness
Wide use of classical allusions
Personification
Hyperbole
Comparison
Quotation
Pun
Satire
Irony
Beliefs
Between 1900 and 1910 nearly nine million people arrived in the United States from foreign shores, marking the country's all-time peak of immigration. Because of this, there were no large majorities of specific religions.