Modernism
Modernism is a highly complex cultural phenomenon which has generated a variety of differing opinions and an immense critical literature. The notion of the "modern" has undergo...
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In the following essay, Balakian considers the variety of meanings and manifestations of Modernism.
Each generation of writers had the habit of reacting against the past by declaring itself "...
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In the following excerpt, Hobsbaum examines Modernism in English poetry.
A conventional account of the rise of modern poetry would, I suppose, run something like this. The Georgians of Sir Edward M...
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In the following essay, Esslin provides an overview of the sources and characteristics of Modernist drama.
Concepts, it must be said at the outset, like modernity, modernism, and the avant-garde fi...
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In the following essay, Levin reflects on the distinguishing traits and cultural significance of the Modernist era in literature.
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In the following essay, Adams enumerates reasons for the inadequacy of "Modernism" as a critical-historical term.
"The past serves only as a means of knowing the present. But ...
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In the following essay, Poirier confronts the problematic nature of Modernism as it has been variously designated by literary critics and historians.
On every side, these days, there is talk of mod...
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In the following essay, which was originally delivered as a lecture before the Royal Society of Literature in 1979, Conquest questions the ultimate artistic and cultural value of Modernism.
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In the following essay, Johnsen suggests a new definition of Modernism based on the rejection of such "binary oppositions" as order and chaos.
Deux dangers ne cessent de menacer le mo...
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In the following essay, Bradbury focuses on the divergent origins and development of Modernism among American and European writers.
At the beginning of A Homemade World: The American Modernist Writ...
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In the following essay, Gamache illuminates the origins and meaning of the term "Modernism " in both literary and nonliterary contexts.
Because the ambition to define modernism comple...
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In the following excerpt, Josipovici studies the relationship between Modernism and the earlier artistic movement of Romanticism.
[The] years between 1885 and 1914 saw the birth of the modern movem...
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In the following essay, Chamberlain links Modernism to the late nineteenth-century Decadent movement.
"Sympathy with suffering," suggested Oscar Wilde, "is the joy of one leper...
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In the following essay, Allen considers self-consciousness as a defining trait of the Modernist temperament.
If there is one undisputed attribute of the modernist temper, it is self-consciousness. ...
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In the following essay, which was originally delivered as a lecture in 1987, Kenner considers the linguistic complexity of Modernist works.
To commence with good news: the Last Modernist is well in...
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In the following essay, Tuttleton focuses on conflict between the radically experimental stylistic innovations of Modernist literature and the conservative, often reactionary, attitudes of Modernist a...
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Postmodernism is an attitude rather than a movement. In the latter half of the 20th century, there has been mounting evidence of the failure of modernism. Postmodernism is the renewal of modernism a...
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Modernism is defined in Merriam-Webster's Dictionary as "a self-conscious break with the past and a search for new forms of expression." While this explanation does relate what modernism means, the i...
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The modernist period in British and Irish literature was one of the most important and exciting times in literary history. The term modernist stemmed from the beginning of the 20th century labelled ...
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The historic place of English Modernist poetry is so easy to come by. It first emerged in of the Imagist poets of the 20th century such as T.E. Hulme and F.S. Flint, and it had it roots in the ...
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One of the world's biggest online art galleries launched part of
its website in Chinese on Monday, aiming to help artists in China
upload their work and show it to a global audience.
The ...
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Cuba is modernizing its ethanol-producing facilities despite Fidel Castro's repeated assertions that making more of the biofuel could starve the world's poor.The island plans to upgrade 11 of its 1...
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The words "classic with a modern twist" might very well be the most overused phrase in fashion, so much so that they almost mean nothing.But if you think carefully about what it should mean _ cloth...
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Omar Ali Khan has added a quirky dimension to the description of Pakistan as a front line of the war on terror _ a Hollywood-inspired movie that's sparking surprising interest at home and abroad."W...
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