1.2 Literary Modernism. by Iridian M. Hernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign Literary modernism in the United States and Great Britain. en-us 2023-02-05 05:25:48 UTC 2023-02-05 10:29:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4da.png What is modern? iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468768382 Modern is a term we use when we refer to something that is NEW or CONTEMPORARY. ]]> 2023-02-05 05:27:09 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468768382 What is modernism? iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468769033 The word modernism is used in literature to describe a certain period of time in art history. ]]> 2023-02-05 05:30:47 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468769033 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468770193 Modernist literature take in those pieces created from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century.]]> 2023-02-05 05:36:37 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468770193 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468780766 It was influenced by thinkers who questioned the certainties that had provided support for traditional modes of social organization, religion, morality, and human identity, or the self. 

Robinson, 2022.
]]> 2023-02-05 06:19:29 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468780766 What changes did it have? iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468783274 Modernists subverted basic conventions of prose fiction by breaking up narrative continuity, violating traditional syntax, and disrupting the coherence of narration.]]> 2023-02-05 06:31:03 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468783274 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468785148 They left standard ways of representing characters by questioning identity as a real, eliminating the possibility of character coherence.]]> 2023-02-05 06:37:24 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468785148 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468788191 To the modernists, the visible, space, and time are not reality; rather, they are modes through which we apprehend reality.

Robinson, 2022.
]]> 2023-02-05 06:48:06 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468788191 What influenced modernism? iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468789584 2023-02-05 06:54:28 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468789584 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468790068 Modern industrialism]]> 2023-02-05 06:55:56 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468790068 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468790287 Rapid growth of cities]]> 2023-02-05 06:56:50 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468790287 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468790546 Western society]]> 2023-02-05 06:57:57 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468790546 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468791498 World War I]]> 2023-02-05 07:02:12 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468791498 Caracteristics of modern literature. iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468802284 In this period of time, the world was going through extreme changes. Therefore, authors found a way to reflect those situations in different. 

Patrick (2011), mentions the following characteristics.]]> 2023-02-05 07:49:33 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468802284 Individualism iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468803538 Writers were fascinated with how the individual adapted to the changing world and triumphed over obstacles. They presented the world or society as a challenge to the integrity of their characters.]]> 2023-02-05 07:53:23 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468803538 Experimentation iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468805466 Modernist writers broke free of old forms and techniques, wrote in free verse, defied all expectations, mixed images from the past with modern languages and themes, creating a collage of styles. ]]> 2023-02-05 08:00:57 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468805466 Absurdity iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468807330 The carnage of two World Wars profoundly affected writers of the period. For many writers, the world was becoming a more absurd place every day. The mysteriousness of life was being lost in the rush of daily life what made authors depict this absurdity in their works.]]> 2023-02-05 08:08:11 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468807330 Symbolism iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468808848 Writers infused objects, people, places and events with significant meanings. The idea of a poem as a riddle to be cracked had its beginnings in the Modernist period. They left much more to the reader's imagination, leading to open-ended narratives with multiple interpretations.]]> 2023-02-05 08:12:16 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468808848 Formalism iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468809805 Literature was more as a craft than a flowering of creativity. Poems and novels were constructed from smaller parts instead of the organic, internal process that earlier generations had described. Modernist poetry often includes foreign languages, dense vocabulary and invented words. ]]> 2023-02-05 08:15:36 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468809805 Literature modernism in the United States. iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468817962 America entered the twentieth century optimistically as a wealthy, strong world power. Although this time period started off with prosperity, it soon became one characterized by three main causes. ]]> 2023-02-05 08:45:14 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468817962 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468818334 World War I]]> 2023-02-05 08:46:36 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468818334 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468818498 Severe economic depression.]]> 2023-02-05 08:47:05 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468818498 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468818864 World War II]]> 2023-02-05 08:48:17 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468818864 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468822179 2023-02-05 08:58:21 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468822179 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468824018 The literature of the era was often times fragmented to cause confusion and intentionally break the flow of words in literature. ]]> 2023-02-05 09:04:17 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468824018 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468824860 Two major themes of the era were confusion and disillusionment. ]]> 2023-02-05 09:06:12 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468824860 American modernist authors iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468825510 2023-02-05 09:07:58 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468825510 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468826081 T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)]]> 2023-02-05 09:09:53 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468826081 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468826553 Katherine Anne Porter (1890- 1980)]]> 2023-02-05 09:11:17 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468826553 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468827184 Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)]]> 2023-02-05 09:13:24 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468827184 Literature modernism in the Great Britain. iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468827462 The Victorian Period ended with the death of Queen Victoria and a change in the political stability that her rule had guaranteed. ]]> 2023-02-05 09:14:23 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468827462 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468841781 Modernism responds to rapid transformations in Western society, including urbanization, the growth of industry, and World War I.]]> 2023-02-05 09:53:06 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468841781 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468842363 Much modernist literature is actually antimodern, registering modernity as an experience of loss.]]> 2023-02-05 09:54:53 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468842363 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468843822 Authors believed that the previously sustaining elements of human life, like religious beliefs, social mores, and artistic convictions, had been destroyed or proven false or fragile.]]> 2023-02-05 09:59:05 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468843822 Pre World War I iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468845807 Captured the viewpoint and language of soldiers as it detailed the horror of both the Boer Wars and eventually World War I.]]> 2023-02-05 10:04:24 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468845807 World War I iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468846784 Created social, political, and economic problems for Great Britain as they incurred heavy debts, marking marked a decline in it's global status.The poetry of the time is representative of that and shows the deep pessimism of this post-war nation.]]> 2023-02-05 10:06:53 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468846784 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468847960 World War I inspired a lot of poetry both from soldiers on the battlefield describing their experiences and war supporters at home.]]> 2023-02-05 10:10:00 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468847960 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468848292 A number of these poets, including Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas, and Rupert Brooke, died on the battlefield.]]> 2023-02-05 10:10:58 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468848292 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468851576 Modernist writing is highly self-reflexive and poems written during this time were much shorter and relied more heavily on free verse. Additionally, many poets used the theory of imagism in their writing, which involved concise language and sought to capture an image.

Speicher, n.d.
]]> 2023-02-05 10:19:15 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468851576 British modernist authors iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468851825 2023-02-05 10:20:03 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468851825 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468852791 Virginia Woolf (1882- 1941)]]> 2023-02-05 10:22:40 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468852791 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468853086 Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)]]> 2023-02-05 10:23:35 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468853086 iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468854301 William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)]]> 2023-02-05 10:26:49 UTC https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468854301 References iridianmhernandez https://padlet.com/iridianmhernandez/wyqm395dp2i6jign/wish/2468855272 Cook, E. (2020). The Creative Spirit: 1550-Present. https://boisestate.pressbooks.pub/thecreativespirit/chapter/chapter-11-the-20th-century/

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