Modernist Novel

addition to winning this prize, the novel was also short listed in 2008 for the Best Booker Prize, a prize created to mark the fortieth anniversary of the award. This recognition sets this text apart from Dick's novel, however, the revised criteria which accommodates and promotes genre novels, mean that this particular text is deserving of its consideration for the prize of the best book of the twentieth century. A.S. Bryatt (2001, p.302) asserts that 'the historical novel has been frowned on,…

Wallace (DFW)’s Infinite Jest which the New York Times summarized by saying, “The overall effect is something like a sleek Vonnegut chassis wrapped in layers of post-millennial Zola. Mr. Wallace's... fiction reveals him as a student of literary post-modernists... flirting with metafictional tropes and self-referential narratives. (NYT)”. The New York Times is an incredibly well respected paper whose reputation depends on its articles authenticity. That particular article was written by Jay…

He was never content to imitate. Even though, that was precisely what he did with his first novel, The Town and the City. Kerouac considered the novel The Town and the City widely compared to the work of Thomas Wolfe, his worst book. By the time, he finished Town, he had already developed his friendship with Neal Cassady and lived many of the events he writes about in On…

In the novel of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce a künstlerroman written in a modernist style, we see the religious and intellectual awakening of the fictional alter ego of James Joyce named Stephen Dedalus. We see the struggles Stephen are faced with as he grows up and these struggles are his family, morality, religion and nationality. As these struggles between Stephen and the above issues progresses Stephen reaches a point in his life where he decides to reject the…

noted that predicament is the central component in this formula. This is due to the fact that, as previously stated, conflicts are essential because of its value in terms of interest and morality. However individuals, especially the group known as Modernists, oppose the argument that story makers should work within the tight confines of problem structure. It is understandable how a writer would be against such a statement, after all writing is a form of expression. Expression is a form freedom…

which is a state of flux following the Great War. Woolf’s motive in writing this novel wasn’t just to present to us the confined life of a high-society housewife, or to explore homosexuality or feminism, but to take the reader on a psychological journey that takes postmodernism and realism to a new level which hadn’t been portrayed in Victorian novels. She helped to pioneer the writing style known as stream of…

After strict moral standards established many years ago appeared to have failed, and science had proven that it could not prove the origin of the universe, a new philosophical and artistic expression moved in to fill the void of the Modernist Movement. The Postmodern Movement was born out of a lack of faith in society and the established way of life as a whole, and embraced the philosophy of meaninglessness and a rejection of the transcendental meta-narrative. This move has been fully expressed…

Secondly, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s modernist novel titled The Great Gatsby follows the antagonist called Tom Buchanan as he commits deadly sins of wrath and pride and lust. According to Oxford-Online Dictionary,“antagonist” is defined as,“A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary”(https://en.oxforddictionaries.com). In other words, an antagonist is a person who offers opposition to the protagonist. Tom Buchanan is the antagonist in the novel titled The Great…

For whom the Bell Tolls than in the early novels. It is obvious that results support critics’ claims about the beginning of change in this novel. If we look at the openings of the three novels; The Sun also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For whom the Bell Tolls, it is obvious that, although words are concrete, simple, colloquial, and belong to our common-core vocabulary, they are longer in the third novel. The words are simple in the first two novels, but they are compounds in For whom…

the discrete novels as a more prominent creation. For example, science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, frequently an essential character in different novels is appeared as a social commentator and a companion to Billy Pilgrim. Other crossover characters are Eliot Rosewater from God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater, Howard W. Campbell from Mother Night and Bertram Copeland Rumfoord, relative of Winston Niles Rumfoord from The Sirens of Titan (1959). Mr. Rosewater says that Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The…