MODERNISM
I will
explain what modernism is, and I will give examples of books related to Modernism.
First,
I have learned about modernism in ITL class (Introduction Of Literature).
Modernism has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is a
period or movement, an international movement in European, American, World art,
literature, and culture. The horrors of the First World War saw the prevailing
assumptions about society reassessed, and modernist writers were influenced by
such thinkers as Sigmund Freud and
Karl Marx , amongst
others, who raised questions about the rationality of the human mind. Modernism
is associated with the era in the middle between World War I and World War II .
Modernism
has Characteristics, Jazz Age, Great Depression, and Industrial Revolution. Modernism as
a literary movement is typically associated with the period after World War I.
The enormity of the war had undermined humankind’s faith in the foundations of
Western society and culture, and postwar Modernist literature reflected a sense
of disillusionment and fragmentation.
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Pablo Picasso's Guernica, 1937, protest against Fascism
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| Marcel Duchamp.NudeDescending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912).Philadelphia Museum ofArt |
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James Joyce, statue on North Earl Street, Dublin, by Marjorie FitzGibbon
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This is one of the examples of the books related to the
characteristics of modernism.
- Jazz Age
Flappers and
Philosophers
Flappers and Philosophers was F. Scott Fitzgerald's, initial encore – his first
collection of short fiction, published in 1920 to capitalize on the success of
This Side of Paradise, the novel that had made him famous at the age of
twenty-three. Some of his best early stories are included here: 'The Offshore
Pirate', 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair', 'The Ice Palace' and 'Benediction'. In these
narratives Fitzgerald presented his prototypical Jazz-Age heroines, beautiful
and wilful young women who later became trademarks of his fiction.
What is Flappers Means, a young woman who has
short hair, wearing excessive makeup and wore short skirts. they symbolize the
liberation of the 1920s many people see the behavior as a sign of moral change.- Great Depression
The
Grapes of Wrath
First
published in 1939, John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl
migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the
Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised
land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against
the hard realities of an America divided into haves and have-nots evolves a
drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision,
elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity.
- Industrial Revolution
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist or The Parish Boy’s Progress by Charles Dickens, Dickens second novel, Published in 1838. Dickens lived through
the Industrial Revolution. He wrote about how life was changing, especially for
poor people. About Oliver Twist, Describe many bad character, social class and
the importance of education, mistaken identities, the powerlessness of women
and children. By the early nineteenth century, the problem of abandoned
children in urban areas, especially London, began to reach alarming
proportions. The workhouse
system, instituted in 1834,
although often brutal, was an attempt at the time to house orphans as well as
other vulnerable people in society who could not support themselves in exchange
for work. Conditions, especially for the women and children, were so bad as to
cause an outcry among the social
reform-minded middle-class;
one of Charles Dickens' most
famous novels, Oliver Twist, highlighted
the plight of the vulnerable and the often abusive conditions that were
prevalent in the London orphanages.
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