Towards the 1920s,these trends converged into a mighty torrent of modernist movement, which swept across the whole Europe and America
❖ Towards the 1920s, these trends converged into a mighty torrent of modernist movement, which swept across the whole Europe and America
It has also been called "the tradition of the new"-a conscious rejection of established rules,traditions and conventions,and "the dehumanization of art"-pushing into the background traditional notions of the individual and society
❖ It has also been called "the tradition of the new"-a conscious rejection of established rules, traditions and conventions, and "the dehumanization of art"-pushing into the background traditional notions of the individual and society
The major figures that were associated with Modernism were Kafka,Picasso,Pound, Eliot,Joyce and Virginia Woolf. Modernism was somewhat curbed in the 1930s
❖ The major figures that were associated with Modernism were Kafka, Picasso, Pound, Eliot, Joyce and Virginia Woolf. ❖ Modernism was somewhat curbed in the 1930s
But after the Second World War,a variety of modernism,or post-modernism,like existentialist literature,theater of the absurd. new novels and black humor,rose with the spur of the existentialist idea that "the world was absurd,and the human life was an agony
❖ But after the Second World War, a variety of modernism, or post-modernism, like existentialist literature, theater of the absurd, new novels and black humor, rose with the spur of the existentialist idea that "the world was absurd, and the human life was an agony
Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base. The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted,alienated and ill relationships between man and nature,man and society,man and man,and man and himself
❖ Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base. ❖ The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill relationships between man and nature, man and society, man and man, and man and himself