Modernist literature

SOme praise modernity and some don't. Hemingway and Kawabata for example, are perfect examples of contradicting outlooks on modernisms. The six short stories of these authors are intricate in the way they think and how they accept life. These two modernist are similar because they both agree on simplicity, meaning and suffering. Simplicity more so because modernity is all about getting down to the point and not being too tangled. Suffering is mutual for both but the only difference is how the…

The repetition of the shape of the window is intriguing and geometric. Since the building was completed in 1964, it is chronologically right on time to be part of the modernist architecture movement. The architect, Maynard Lyndon, was well known for using concrete and glass (two classic materials that were a favorite of modernist architects) in new and exciting ways. Lyndon also liked to design buildings that "were actually humane places. The work around lighting, space and real attention to…

Imagism was a literary movement that began in the early 20th century. This movement has its roots in the artistic world where its main aim was to avoid the old conventions and find new ways of creativity. Poets such as Ezra Pound, H.D. and William Carlos Williams tried to create a way of expressing the imagism in painting through words in poetry. This movement as contemporary art repudiates ‘beauty’ standards, and the Romanticism of the 19th-century while it admires the quotidian, the perceptual…

personal tumults. In return, her poetry helped to shape the genre that is known as Canadian Literature. Avison’s life has been shaped by many events, starting at the very beginning of her life. After moving to Regina, Saskatchewan with her family, her family raised her in a Methodist church. This church is where her predominate childhood memories…

Shawn Khan Mrs. Mikowski Hamlit 11 1 Feb 2012 Literary Periods Text Analysis In the song “The Dog Days Are Over” by Florence+ The Machine, the text gives rise to the idea of Realism. Realism is generalized with having an objective narrator, and leaves the reader to interpret the story in his or her own way. This occurred after the Civil War when Post War writers focused on creating works that did not idealize people or like transcendentalism. Basically, writers wrote truthfully…

Associate Professor, Department of Marketing, University of Dhaka, told me to read lots of books, and to be an inquisitive learner. His speech impressed me a lot, and I spent some of my best days in reading books, especially of literature. I had gone through the texts of the modernist writers, i.e. Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, and David Herbert Lawrence as a consequence of my reading. Finding their writings very intriguing relating to class, gender, and race, feminism, and…

philosophical movement that rejects understood notions of the traditional while redefining literature, art, and their boundaries. Seeking to make sense of a changing world, the early modernist revolution saw drastic departures from traditional forms of art, literature, architecture, religion, philosophy, social values, and the sciences. Moreover, among the many factors that shape modernist art and literature specifically, they can be characterized by a deliberate rejection of the styles of the…

enlightenment thinking, in part due to the religious undertones it entails. In 1915, Modernist poet T. S. Eliot’s famous poem, ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ was published. Writer Ronald Bush (1999) notes that it had an “effect that was both unique and compelling and their assurance staggered Eliot's contemporaries who were privileged to read them in manuscript”. ‘Prufrock’ has since become…

Modernism Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay Henri Bergson (1859 – 1941) was a French philosopher whose philosophy had a marked influence on later 19th century poetry and also on 20th century modernist thought. In my presentation, I will outline in brief Bergson’s key philosophical thoughts and how they influenced modernist literature. Bergson maintained that in animals, evolution caused a division between the instinct and the intellect. Although the two are not exclusive of each other, the faculty of…

American Literature has constantly changed throughout time as the American culture has changed. Style and content has been the largest factors used to differentiate between multiple authors in many different time periods. Authors use different styles and contents to teach readers messages that they believe are meaningful. When all the differences are put aside, readers can see one common theme in all of American Literature. An author’s main purpose is to show who they truly are or what they…