MODERNISM

Modernism

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Modernism

Introduction

In a broad sense, modernism refers to the modern practice, character and thought. More explicitly, modernism illustrates the modernist movement in the associated cultural movements, its set of cultural tendencies, and in the arts, formerly occurs from far-reaching and wide-scaling changes to Western society in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Particularly, the factors shaped Modernism are rapid cities growth and modern industrial societies' development, pursued next to the World War I.

In the context of literature, Modernism discards the realism ideology, while making use of prior work, by means of the application of parody, revision, recapitulation, rewriting, incorporation and reprise in the new forms. Furthermore, Modernism also discards the compassionate idea, enduring certainly of enlightenment thinking, and all-powerful Creator.

Generally, modernism includes the output and activities of ones who felt the conventional forms of literature, architecture, art, social organization, faith, religious and routine life were outdated in the new political, social and economic conditions of a growing modernized world. The poet Ezra Pound's 1934 sanction to “Make it new!” was paradigmatic of the approach of the movement in the direction of outdated (Gillies & Mahood, 2007: 23-198).

The poet Ezra Pound's 1934 injunction to "Make it new!" was paradigmatic of the movement's approach towards the obsolete. Another typical catchphrase was uttered by composer and philosopher Theodor Adorno, who, confronted appearance of harmony and conventional surface coherence typical of the Enlightenment thinking rationality, in the 1940s. A prominent modernism characteristic is self-consciousness, and often directed to experiments with work and form that grasp the interest to the materials and processes used, as well as, to the further abstraction.

Discussion

Modernist writing emerged just after World War I, in the form of literary style by the late 1920s into American literature. A number of people questioned the insanity and chaos, after the First World War. The trust in authority figures and the universal truth of the world started to fall down, and Modernist writing was a reaction to the beliefs' devastation.

The Sound and the Fury was written by William Faulkner in 1929, which broke the modernist movement in fictional writing in the United States that has a combination of ranting and raving reviews. Faulkner comes to influence future works of modernist such as Hemmingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), and Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour (1934). It emerges more than a movement of literary (Lewis, 2007: 55-268).

Modernism can be viewed in several artistic expression types from the period 1928 to 1945 in United States; however, these write will consider modernist writing that include some characteristics which as under: Modernist writing uses fragmentation in overall storyline, images, theme, characters and plot. Therefore, for example, many works of modernism are not in the classic linear series; the family unit's destruction; movement away from religion; loss in an enormous theme in works of modernism; authority figures are reflecting the truth question and often untrustworthy; characters can be provided no physical and ...