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Important Literary Theories
Nahid Kaiser:
we can add play, rhizome etc
Md. Nuruzzaman Moral:
Thank you Madam for sharing your idea.
Md. Nuruzzaman Moral:
Characteristics of Modernism
Formal characteristics
• Open Form
• Free verse
• Discontinuous narrative
• Juxtaposition
• Intertextuality
• Classical allusions
• Borrowings from other cultures and languages
• Unconventional use of metaphor
• Metanarrative
• Fragmentation
• Multiple narrative points of view (parallax)
Md. Nuruzzaman Moral:
Thematic characteristics
• Breakdown of social norms and cultural sureties
• Dislocation of meaning and sense from its normal context
• Valorization of the despairing individual in the face of an unmanageable future
• Disillusionment
• Rejection of history and the substitution of a mythical past, borrowed without chronology
• Product of the metropolis, of cities and urbanscapes
• Stream of consciousness
• Free indirect discourse
• Overwhelming technological changes of the 20th Century
Md. Nuruzzaman Moral:
Modernism
Modernism describes an array of cultural movements rooted in the changes in Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The term covers a series of reforming movements in art, architecture, music, literature and the applied arts which emerged during this period.
It is a trend of thought that affirms the power of human beings to create, improve, and reshape their environment, with the aid of scientific knowledge, technology or practical experimentation.[1] Modernism encouraged the re-examination of every aspect of existence, from commerce to philosophy, with the goal of finding that which was 'holding back' progress, and replacing it with new, progressive and therefore better, ways of reaching the same end.
Embracing change and the present, modernism encompasses the works of thinkers who rebelled against nineteenth century academic and historicist traditions, believing the "traditional" forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, social organization and daily life were becoming outdated; they directly confronted the new economic, social and political conditions of an emerging fully industrialized world. Some divide the 20th Century into movements designated Modernism and Postmodernism, whereas others see them as two aspects of the same movement.
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