Modernist Novel

interests with her. This experience helps Kelaris to autonomously think about her conditions, review her life, and revise something that seems wrong. The other characters in the novel are individualized, as well. Becoming is defined here: these modern characters are not fixed…

Faulkner and a scholar, Stone saw potential in the seventeen year old William Faulkner. Stone introduced Faulkner to the literary movement going on at that time, which was the Modernist movement. Shortly after the commencement of the twentieth century, up to 1965, was the time period of this literary movement. The Modernist era can be described as a moral shift, where people began to break free of traditional points of view and the way they interacted with the world as a whole. Things that were…

since the death of Irish writer James Joyce, and while he is today regarded amongst the literati as the quintessential Modernist writer, and one of the giants of Western literature, we cannot fault Eliot for his division; he could not then have known the tremendous and unquestionable influence of Joyce on the corpus of English language literature and the philosophy of the Modernist Project. Considered from the perspective of the established Western Canon, Eliot’s elevation of Dante and…

Pocket Knives and Sympathy: An Analysis of Modernist Male Anxieties Modernism is rife with experimentation and the challenging of norms as a way to experience the new world that is emerging post-war and post-Victorian Era. The majority of modernist authors wrote modernist novels to experiment with new forms and challenge the old ways of the traditional novel. Virginia Woolf experimented with form, but most importantly she used her novels as a platform to challenge the gender system that was in…

of Jane Eyre being one of the most engaging novels 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…

stratification of groups in society and the perpetual pursuit of self-identity will always endure through time. Michael Ondaatje’s historiographical 1987 novel, In the Skin of a Lion, addresses these two themes to a significant extent to convey his ultimate message about the migrant experience and inaccuracy of official histories. In using a post-modernist structure and style Ondaatje attacks the notion of the Grand Narrative whilst the struggle of the migrant assimilation is brought out using…

Anantha Murthy’s Samskara is a religious novel. The novel exposes the conservative life style of the Kannada Brahmins. It attacks the traditional and orthodox principles of the Hindu religion. Sex is an integral part in various Hindu puranas and all the Brahamines of Durvasapura agrahara lead a dull and sterile as well as passive life by suppressing their sexual desire. During his preachings Pranesacharya glorifies the amorous sexual charms of legendary Shakuntala and admires Kalidasa for…

characters were presented in works of literature. Up to this point the realist writers painted their characters in broad strokes, often using clichés and making people act in a different way to how a real person would behave in their situation. Modernists, on the other hand, stuck to psychological realism as closely as possible. The characters that they created were true to their social sphere, occupation and age, and the plot and narrative were dictated by their actions…

Dalloway’ written by Virginia Woolf and ‘The Hours’ directed by Stephen Daldry are perfect examples of this. Due to the use of modernist and post-modernist techniques such as juxtaposition, both texts illustrate a perspective on…

story, to reflecting upon the ideologies that pass through and surpass, in this case, a child’s mind, in different aspects. Deborah Parsons states in her book, “Theorists of the modernist novel”, that, contrary to the popular belief that the psychological and psychoanalytical works of Sigmund Freud influenced the modernist approach to individual consciousness, it is not the Austrian psychologist who left this mark on literature, all being as it is due to Henri Bergson: “In the first decades of…