Modernism

meaningful relationships between other people. The poem deals with the idea of modernism, a desire to break from traditional way of understanding the world by rejecting the artistic and literature styles of the past. This idea of modernism appears in William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning.” “Barn Burning” shows the son’s dilemma of trying to break from his father’s value. Even though these texts all seem to exhibit the idea of modernism, Prufrock has a passive attitude while the Sarty shows an active…

Modernism and the cold war can be regarded as the twin shaping forces on cultural production in the 1950s. When some ardent practitioners tried to move beyond modernist art, others retreated from it, but it remained the defining aesthetic paradigm of the decade. As historical mode modernism became institutionalised in the 1950s as established by the Nobel laureate trio comprising the modernist writers Faulkner, Eliot and Hemingway. Kitsch and modernism were deeply entangled during the period.…

Postmodernism/ Modernism Modernist artists can be viewed as a new way of thinking that started in the 1860’s and ended in the 1970’s that sought to view art thru fresh eyes. Modern art focused on actual items in nature but sought to abstract it. Post-Modernism is almost the anti-modernism. It went to go against anything modernism stood for. Asking more questions than it answered postmodern artists sought to simplify and recreate past styles and converge low and high art into one. In this essay…

however, foster the emergence of Realism... An apprehension that the modern condition demanded new forms of representation had begun to emerge earlier in the nineteenth century with Romanticism.’ (Wood, P. 2012.p. 24). Advocates and practitioners of modernism such as art historian Stendhal emphasised a need for change to traditional academic representations of life, ‘the Romantic, in all the arts, is the man who represents people as they are today, and not as they were in those heroic times…

In his essay, “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1919), Eliot discusses the “process of depersonalization” and its relation to tradition and the writers who have come before. One of the main contradictions of writers like Eliot, and indeed of modernism in general, is the practice of looking to the past in order to understand the present and develop new literary techniques. This essay also highlights Eliot’s anti-Romanticism, a sentiment commonly expressed by many other prominent modernist…

when times were terribly tough; these times created Modernism. The desire to become one of the elite was an over-powering feeling for some. However, many struggled with racism, being poor and having to work hard for what little money they got. Frost, Robinson, Hughes, and Welty depict Modernism within their poetry. Modernism was a time of great riches but the great depression, dust bowl, and World War II struck many with poverty. Modernism is a time of ease but also of great struggle. Life…

Modernism began in the late 19th century and spanned to the early-mid 20th century. It most likely originated in the industrial revolution, rapidly gaining momentum after the First World War, until a swift disillusionment stifled it during the Second World War (Kuiper; Deggan). As a genre, Modernism is generally defined by a self-conscious and radical reform of traditional forms of expression (Kuiper). T.S Eliot wrote and published his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" in the early…

Jessica Berman (2009) makes the prescient observation that “modernism seems at the heart of the new comparative literature in a way not seen since the final chapter of Erich Auerbach’s foundational text, Mimesis? Why?” (55). While she uses the term “new comparative literature,” she could have easily been asking why modernism plays such a vital role in “new world literature.” Her answer as to why these texts employ modernism is that they do so because it is viewed as a universalizing /…

written during a time period where both modernism and imperialism were societally pervasive. Inherently, these cultural contexts and epochs influenced literature and arguably Heart of Darkness. In order to evaluate how Heart of Darkness reflects and challenges the spirit of these two time periods and historical contexts, its narratological and thematic framework should be considered, to reach the synthesizing conclusion that the literary epoch of modernism is reflected extensively in Heart of…

contrast modernism and post-modernism in the context of counseling theory and methodology. Although counseling came about on the foundation of a modern worldview, society now embraces a predominantly post-modern culture. Some counseling theorists recognized this shift in culture and developed postmodern theories of counseling. In this essay, I describe the impact of these worldviews as they relate to the counseling profession. I examine similarities and differences between modernism and…