Modernist literature

In literature, the development is connected with the works of (among others) Eliot, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, H.D., Franz Kafka, Knut Hamsun, Henry James, Katherine Mansfield, and others. In their endeavour to divert from the stylish weight of the realist novel, these writers presented a mixed bag of artistic strategies that includes, the radical interruption of direct stream of narratives; the dissatisfaction of customary desires concerning solidarity…

this novel near the end of the modernist era, when the pressure to blaze a trail into a new realm of literature was less noticeable. Her novel has elements that could readily appeal to the lay reader, including a protagonist and plot which are generally comprehensible. But still, she looks back to the past for inspiration – as Eliot says all great writers must – and we must look with her. While modernism may not, after all, be the most accessible tradition of literature by the standards of most…

Author T.S. Eliot’s Influence on American Literary History Author T.S. Eliot, was an American-English poet, playwriter, literary critic, an editor and was a major contributor and leader of the Modernist movement in poetry. From his works like “The Waste Land” and then the what some call sequel “The Hollow Men,” Eliot’s style of writing not only had a huge influence on American literary history but also influenced many other writers such as Derek Walcott and Kamau Brathwaite. After reading some…

Edward Estlin Cummings, a 20th century poet, painter, playwright, and novelist, impacted literature greatly. Nearly all of his poems challenged the accepted rules of writing through formatting and grammar choices. The topics of the poems created the most controversy, especially the poems he wrote focusing on nature, religion, and his sexuality. Due to his strict religious upbringing, Cummings conveys his inner strife and difficulties forming connections through his eccentric writing style.…

In Mary Lou Emery’s Modernist Crosscurrents, Emery criticizes the outsider status of Jean Rhys. An outsider as female in a male-dominant literary world, as a West Indian writer, and as a European modernist. In demonstrating the intersecting importance of cultural history and literary history, Emery takes two approaches. In her first approach, she considers the European approach of the “self’ and the “masquerade or character” In her second approach, Emery considers the uncertainty of cultural…

Raymonde Guillet Professor Nelson ENG 203-I01 25 July 2016 Unit 2 Annotated Bibliography Bruzelius, Margaret. "H.D. and Eurydice." Twentieth Century Literature 44.4 (1998): 447. Biography in Context. Web. 21 July 2016. In this article, the author states how most poets convey Eurydice in their accounts of Orpheus. The author also describes how most accounts of the Greek legend are put together. Then the author describes the context of H.D’s account of the legend and how Eurydice is portrayed. The…

nature. Robert’s poems were influenced by the Modernist period and by his personal background. In order to understand Robert Frost’s poems, you need to understand his view of nature. To him, throughout all of his struggles, nature was something he could turn to, a solace. Robert had many people and things who influenced his writings such as, Mr. Thomas and Mr. Graves, nature, his wife, his father and children’s deaths, his emotions, and the Modernist style of writing. Therefore, in order to…

of its time due to its brilliant plot and peculiar characters, it also has an abundance of historical importance as well. Firstly, Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre was one of the first modernist literature to be published. “‘Modernist Literature’ is [just] a hefty phrase that basically refers to literature written between 1899 and 1945, and involving experimentation with the traditional novel format” (Shmoop Editorial Team). The peculiar originality of this inspiring novel is that…

role of artists from art, literature, music, poetry, etc. is to be influential. Art has been influenced greatly since there has been frequent development in technology such as digital. Innovations or materials have expanded the horizons of creativity for artists. New technology has also reduced the time most artists have to spend on their work, such as Contemporary artist. Modernism is a term to define a variety of specific artistic and philosophical movements. Modernists distinguished…

Robert Frost Pulitzer Prize winning poet and playwright, Robert Frost was a twentieth century poet who was most famous for his depiction of the rural New England life in his work. This fame would bring Frost to be both critically acclaimed as well as an enormously popular writer. Frost would be seen as one of our most renowned poets and playwrights. This popularity would bring Frost to win his first Pulitzer prize for his book “New Hampshire: A poem with Notes and Grace Notes,” in 1924. In 1931…