Paper Name : The Modernist English Literature

Presentation Topic :Major movements of the modern age

Name: Solanki Pintu VSem : 3Roll No : 29Enrollment No: PG15101037

Email: solankipintu1991@gmail.comSubmitted to : M.K. BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY Department Of English

Definiation

Modernism is a literary and cultural international movement which flourished in the first decades of the 20th century.

Modernism is not a term to which a single meaning can be ascribed. It may be applied both to the content and to the form of a work, or to either in isolation.

It reflects a sense of cultural crisis which was both exciting and disquieting, in that it opened up a whole new vista of human possibilities at the same time as putting into question any previously accepted means of grounding and evaluating new ideas.

Modernism is marked by experimentation, particularly manipulation of form, and by the realization that knowledge is not absolute.

Modernism as a movement

Modernism as a movement can be recognized not onlyin literature but also in The sciences

Philosophy

Psychology

Anthropology

Painting

Music

Sculpture

Architecture

Major movements of the modern age

Modernist Artsiest also know to 20th century leading of arts.

Numerous artiste present to his idea on new thinking or new way to contractions or deconstructions.

Literature also reproduce them art or new creation of human philosophy or psychology relations between man or Nature.

Stream of Consciousness

Stream of Consciousness term was coined by William James in 1980 in his The Principles of Psychology.

In literary criticism, stream of conscious, also known as interior monologue, is a narrative mode or devise that depicts the thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind.

This movement is usually associated with modernist novelists in the first part of the 20th century, the most famous use of the technique came in 1922, with the publication of James Joyces Ulysses.

Stream of consciousness examples can be found in the works of French writer Marcel Proust, Indian writer Salman Rushdie, Irish writer James Joyce, Italian writer Italo Svevo, Mexican writer Roberto Bolao and contemporary American novelist Dave Eggers.

Dadaism

Dadaism or Dada is a post-World War I cultural movement in visual art as well as literature (mainly poetry),theatre and graphic design.

Dada was an informal international movement with participants in Europe and North America.

Many Dadaists believed that the reason and logic of bourgeoisie capitalist society had led people into war.

They expressed their rejection of that ideology in artistic logic and embrace chaos and irrationality.

Dadaism Philosophy

The idea is more important than the work itself

Art can be made of anything

Imagism

The poetical movement, known as Imagism, was a reaction against Romanticism, especially Georgian poetry.

Imagism was 20th century movement that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language.

Effects on Poetry

Clarity of expression through the use of precise verbal images

All poetry is somewhat imagist.

Words are important because poetry is usually short.

Poets are artists who use words to paint pictures in our minds.

If we can understand the imagery in a poem, we will usually come closer to understanding the poem as a whole.

Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings.

Surrealist imagery is probably the most recognizable element of the movement.

Surrealism is often associated with the visual arts but in fact it developed as a movement not only in the visual arts, but in the literary arts as well.

Andre Breton wrote the Surrealist Manifesto in 1924, in which he praised Sigmund Freuds notion of the unconscious.

Surrealism movement was an attempt to capture the mind's deepest and most unconscious aspects in painting.

Expressionism

Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting.

originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century.

In literature, expressionism is often considered a revolt against realism and naturalism,

In the novel, the term is closely allied to the writing of Franz Kafka and James Joyce,

Cubism

Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized painting,sculpture,music, literature and architecture.

Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century.

The movement was pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso.

Realism

Realism is a literary movement that developed in the middle of the 19th century in France.

realism in the arts is the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, implausible, exotic and supernatural elements.

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