Modernist drama

O'Brien's 'At Swim-Two-Birds' and Modernist Writing The Twentieth Century found literature with a considerably different attitude and frame-of-mind than had the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Two hundred years is, of course, a long time to allow change within genres, but after the fairly gradual progression of the novel as a form, its change in the hands of modernism happened rapidly in comparison. Explaining how texts within the framework of modernist writing are “different” require laying

impressionistic work without omniscient narrators and clean resolutions. The proliferation of the experimental spirit in modernist works of literature often alienated popular readership, and such exclusivity served as a mark of quality to a certain extent as it went in hand with the modernist intellectuals’ disdain towards the mass-consumption-driven popular culture. Modernist intellectuals rejected popular culture, as they perceived that creating work that would be universally accepted often involved

conscious break away from previous realism, 20thC literature employed and explored subjectivism, whereby the author turned from the typical external reality to the inner consciousness of a character or subject, to reflect a motif/ theme as a whole. Modernist literature did so by exploring fragmentation in terms of narrative, how a character was constructed, the formation of passages and chapters, and how events unfolded. This typically surmounted to the creation of a sense of a chaotic universe, metaphysically

reflected in the Modern novel through various methods which attempt to present a realistic picture of a chaotic world. Some authors employed elements of Realism, like Hemingway, but in modernist writing there is always more perspicacity beneath the surface, as Michael Bell asserts, “Several of the greatest works of modernist literature are characterized by such a double awareness. They use realist representation, indeed they often use it consummately, yet within an X-ray awareness of its constructed,

excellently portrays the Modernist mindset of writers within the realm of European fiction by emphasizing inner emotions, consciousness, and alienation. The symbol of the dress represents how this object causes the protagonist to experience complex inner emotions, experience continuous conscious thoughts of inferiority and the alienation of not being good enough. Critical sources on this work by Virginia Woolf have also interpreted the symbol of the dress to represent these distinct Modernist characteristics

Clarissa Dalloway - A Modernist Conceived Character Modernism in European literature developed highly between the 1900 and 1920 although its beginning is often associated with Virginia Woolf’s statement that human nature went through a fundamental change "on or about December 1910."(Woolf, 1966: 319). Modernism is generally characterized by a brake with the traditional writing, a desire for experimental literary form and a way of expressing “the new sensibilities of their time” (Childs, 2008:

Modernism was a philosophical movement that occurred in America and England during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This era is distinguished by the break with traditions of literary forms, styles, and concepts, giving creation to an assortment of cultural, art, and political movements. Perhaps nobody took as full of an advantage of the concept of modernism as poets did, expanding the possibilities of their works to unimaginable lengths. Poets such as Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams

Two genres of poetic literature that began in the twentieth century, Modern and Postmodern, made a dramatic impact on the world. With Modern literature being a heavy influence of postmodern authors, they sought to create their own style with substantial differences. Effectively evolving the generation of it’s time to compose in a style that has carved its niche in history, has been practiced and celebrated for the past seventy years and centuries to come. Postmodern literature was formulated as a

in modernist literature is what is the difference between wrong and right, what will our country's future be, what is truth, and what does it mean to be an American. In modernism writers oftentimes don’t give answers and make the reader draw their own conclusions. Writers of the time are also worried about social injustice and want a better world and society. Key elements of modernism include break from tradition, Individualism, and disillusionment. One of the major changes in the modernist era

definition for the modernist movement. Modernism is comprehensive- it is a halo. A halo, comprised of many different sub-genres such as, Expressionism, Dadaism, and Vorticism, to mention but a few. This makes defining the movement, in short; arduous. However, Woolf’s metaphor of life as a halo mirrors modernism as her statement is as all-encompassing and open to interpretation as the movement itself. In addition to this, her comment also presents the reality of the modernist movement, for if her