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Modernism
Question | Answer |
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Modernism | a global artistic and cultural movement that encompasses a vast array of forms, covering many smaller movements. (imagism, vorticism, cubism…). |
Modernism artist | Virginia Woolf ; H.D. ; Ezra Pound ; London and Rapallo ; T.S. Eliot ; James Joyce ; Gertrude Stein. |
Start of modernism | 1890 or 1900. |
Early modernism | (aka high modernism) 1890/1900 – 1939 /1945. |
Late modernism | 1930 or 1939 or 1945 – ???. |
Post modernism | 1950? -- ??????. |
Modernism may include | break from the past/ rejection of realism and romanticism/ distortion of traditional forms / form and style over meaning / uneasy depiction of a post-industrial society./ post-WWI trauma / rejection of humanism / radical politics |
Modernist prose | stream-of-consciousness (William James), the character’s thoughts in a less organized = associative leaps, interrupted thoughts, unconventional grammar. |
Poetic modernism | rejection of traditional forms ‘breaking the pentameter’ (Erza Pound) , which led to free verse, lack a clear narrative, wide lexical field, techniques of imagist poetry from Chinese and Japanese poetry. |
Free verse | a form that has no consistent meter, rhyme or rhythmic pattern. |