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    This technique is most famously employed in the novel Ulysses, masterpiece of Irish author James Joyce. The modernists believed that modern life lacked certainty; the modernists generally suggested rather than asserted meaning in their works. The theme of a typical Modernist work is implied, not stated, forcing readers to draw their own conclusions. While Intertextuality was the popular technique used by the postmodernism. They believed in the concept of the universe in which individual works are not isolated creations. The relationship between one text and another or one text within the interwoven fabric of literary history. Critics point to this as an indication of postmodernism’s lack of originality and reliance on clichés. On of the best works which represented this technique is “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote” by Jorge Luis Borges, with its references to Medieval romances. Another technique…

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    generation”. Indian Camp is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway in 1924. The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. Both stories institute a post-war society’s pain and suffering as they were written a handful of years after the ending of World War 1. The Great Gatsby is a novel portrayed through the eyes of Nick who follows a man known as Jay Gatsby, and his persona as “The Great Gatsby”. Indian Camp is a short story through the eyes of a child witnessing a birth.…

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    The ways in which her earlier memories are illustrated reveal reasoning behind Sasha’s fears and are key to comprehending her later anxieties. She travels through Paris where the reader can depict her hopelessness through the novels stream of consciousness format. This novels structure links ‘The Woman Who Walked into Doors’ by Roddy Doyle, using the stream of consciousness and first person narrative in a similar format to Rhys. This is exhibited through exhibiting the story of a young girl…

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    The literature borders of standard plots, narrative techniques, and the boundary of genres was broken through by modernist writers. Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own” and Franz Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” challenged the view of human reasoning for understanding the world with the use of modernism in literature. The texts by Woolf and Kafka are examples of the information about modernism by Fernald and Bru. Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own” and Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” held the characteristics of…

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    for the moth and the widow. Both essays have a narrator that is an outsider, observing. In “The Death of the Moth,” the narrator is observing the moth and in “Three Pictures,” the narrator observes pictures and people. Woolf notably references class in Three Pictures, with “if my father was a blacksmith and yours was a peer of the realm” in order to convey that the imagination is necessary in order to familiarize themselves with one another, since the two are so different in regards to their…

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    Unlike other buildings on campus that are no less elegant for having several ornamentations, Bunche is relatively unadorned and bare bones. Bunche Hall is, for all intents and purposes, a rectangle. It does not have anything that it does not need, and is suspended in air on surprisingly thin columns, similar to the Seidler house (CITATION, PERHAPS ELABORATION). Most modern buildings are extremely appealing to the eye because of their simplicity, and Bunche is no exception. The repetition of the…

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    Riches, youth and beauty were the dreams of many when the rich had too much money, not enough morals and when times were terribly tough; these times created Modernism. The desire to become one of the elite was an over-powering feeling for some. However, many struggled with racism, being poor and having to work hard for what little money they got. Frost, Robinson, Hughes, and Welty depict Modernism within their poetry. Modernism was a time of great riches but the great depression, dust bowl,…

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    Simply put modernism in a sense, is the resisting of the norm. Artists of the time who strayed away from the norm and used non-conventional techniques were seen as rebels. The use of avant-garde settings, tools, techniques and models, caused a rift in the emerging society, which essentially was the rise of modernism. Artists like Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet all help with the formation of the new world with their new techniques and ideas. Gustave Courbet was what some would look at as a…

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    Beginning in the early twentieth century, the modernist movement in poetry came into view. Many of these poems focused on the themes of World War I; the effects on cities and the people, the changing political and economic climate, and any advancements that may have taken place because of the war. This movement brought along poets such as Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams. Out of the modernist movement came the imagist movement which was helmed by Ezra Pound. The…

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    “Woolf represents modern fiction as the utter destruction of what comes before” (blank 1). Literature has always been and remains a powerful mode of transferring knowledge and ideas. This especially in a time as vulnerable as the early 19th century where social change, upcoming wars and the influence of literature were to re-shaped reality, sense of reality and thus human relations. According to an essay by blank titled, “ 'The Locus of Composability" Virginia Woolf, Modernism, and Place” there…

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