Modernist authors felt betrayed by the war, believing the institutions in which they were taught to believe had led the civilized world into a bloody conflict. They no longer considered these institutions as reliable means to access the meaning of life, and therefore turned within themselves to discover the answers.
Popular British Modernists include the following:. For writers like Hemingway and Fitzgerald, World War I destroyed the illusion that acting virtuously brought about good. Like their British contemporaries, American Modernists rejected traditional institutions and forms. American Modernists include:. Mini Lesson: Make a chart to identify aspects of modernism. In the left column list the characteristics of modernism in literature - in the middle column find specific passages; in the right column write an analysis of the passage.
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Shilpi Sanjivita. Ritika Singh. Rangothri Sreenivasa Subramanyam. Geetanjali Joshi. Roxii Go Prieto. Ire Moses-Olomu. Altaf Sheikh. On the other hand, as modernism is a break with tradition, so this break includes a strong reaction against established religious, political, and social views. According to modernism, there is no such thing as absolute truth.
All things are relative. Another thing, where in traditionalism objectivism is an important point, modernism gives importance to subjectivism. Championship of the individual through the celebration of inner strength is one of the most prominent characteristics of modernism and in this regard it differs from realism. Realism attempts to portray external objects and events as the common or middle class people see them in every day life, impressionalism tries to portray the psychological impression that these objects and events make on characters, emphasizing the role of individual perception and exploring the nature of conscious and subconscious mind.
Whereas realism attempts to portray external objects and events, expressionalism tries to explain the inner vision, emotion or spiritual reality. Whereas, realism attempts to portray external objects and events as they are verisimilituded, surrealism tries to liberal the subconscious to see connection overlooked by the logical mind.
Modernism in Literary texts:. In literature, Literary Modernism has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America. The period of high modernism is twenty years from to Some of the high priests of the movement in literature are T.
The characteristics of the literary modernism that are followed by these writers are given below:.
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