By: Taylor Craig, Madison Kulig, & Chasey Clark Modernism By: Taylor Craig, Madison Kulig, & Chasey Clark
What is Modernism? Modernism is a style or movement in the arts that aims to break with classical and traditional forms Was a movement of the 19th and 20th centuries
Modernism... Modernism refers to interest in new: types of paints and other materials, ways to express feelings and ideas, ways to create abstractions and fantasies, Rather than representing what is real
Early Modernist Writers and Pieces T.S. Eliot (“The Waste Land”, “Four Quartets”) F. Scott Fitzgerald (Great Gatsby) D.H. Lawrence (Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow) W.B. Yeats (The Green Helmet) Georg Trakl (Autumn sonata, Dark seasons) James Joyce (Ulysses) “Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.” -Arthur Erikson
Postmodernism vs. Modernism Some key differences between postmodernism and modernism are: Modernism- science is the standard of all true knowledge Postmodernism- science is ideology Modernism- reason and science provide a reliable foundation of knowledge Postmodernism- reason and science are ideologies; myths created by man
Sources- http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/modernism http://www.artmovements.co.uk/modernism.htm http://www.online-literature.com/periods/modernism.php http://www.brighthubeducation.com/high-school-english-lessons/29453-modernism-in-literature/ http://www19.homepage.villanova.edu/karyn.hollis/prof_academic/Courses/2043_pop/modernism_vs_postmodernism.htm http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/engl_258/Lecture%20Notes/modernism_vs_postmodernism.htm How Literature Works by John Sutherland