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{ "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "type": "OrderedCollectionPage", "orderedItems": [ { "type": "Create", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126370987059716107", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126370987059716107/entities/urn:activity:1126385328431038464", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126370987059716107", "content": "What is Modernism?<br /><br />Modernism is variously argued to be a period, style, genre, or combination of the above; but it is first of all a word; one which exists alongside cognate words. It’s stem, ‘Modern', is a term that, from the Latin ‘modo’, means 'current’, and so has a far wider currency and range of meanings than ‘Modernism'. In the late 5th century, for example, the Latin ‘modernus’ referred to the Christian present in opposition to the Roman past, modern English is distinguished from Middle English, and the modern period in literature is considered to be from the sixteenth century on, although it is sometimes used to describe twentieth-century writing.<br /><br />More generally, 'modern' has been frequently used to refer to the avant-garde, though since World War II this sense has been embraced by the term ‘contemporary’ while 'modern' has shifted from meaning 'now' to 'just now'. It is this sense of the avant-garde, radical, progressive or even revolutionary side to the modern which was the catalyst for the coinage 'Modernism', and it is to this meaning that Rimbaud appealed when insisting \"Il faut etre absolument moderne\"<br /><br />The Modern movement in the arts, although seen as being almost synonymous with the advent of the twentieth century, actually goes back to the last decades of the nineteenth century when the foundations of high Victorian culture were facing serious threats from various agencies. As a cultural phenomenon, Modernism saw the departure from preexisting modes of aesthetic engagement to the sphere of art.<br /><br />Modernism applies to literature, music, painting, film, and architecture and to some works before and after this period). In poetry, Modernism is associated with moves to break from the iambic pentameter as the basic unit of verse, to introduce vers libre, (free verse) symbolism, and other new forms of writing. In prose, Modernism is associated with attempts to render human subjectivity in more authentic ways than realism: to represent consciousness, perception, emotion, meaning and the individual's relation to society through interior monologue, stream of consciousness, tunneling, defamiliarisation, rhythm, irresolution and other techniques. The Modernist writers therefore strove, in Ezra Pound's brief phrase, to make it new\"<br /><br />With regard to literature, Modernism is best understood through the work of the Modernist authors who wrote in the decades before and after the turn of the twentieth century. One of the first aspects of Modernist writing to strike readers is the way in which such novels, stories, plays and poems immerse them in an unfamiliar world. Modernist writing frequently immerses the reader in a confusing and difficult mental landscape which cannot be immediately understood but which must be moved through and mapped by the reader in order to understand its limits and meanings.<br /><br />History of Modernism<br /><br />By contrast ‘Modernism’ was first used in the early 18th century simply to denote trends characteristics of modern times, while in the 19th century its meaning encompassed a sympathy with modern opinions, styles or expressions. In the later part of the 19th century modernism referred to progressive trends in the Catholic Church. In literature it surfaced in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of D'Urbervilles (1891), to denote what he called a general and unwelcome creeping industrial \"ache of Modernism\". In criticism, the context with which this article is concerned, the expression was used, but failed to gain currency by Robert Graves and Laura Riding in their 1927 A Survey of Modernist Poetry. It was only in the 1960s that the term became widely used as a description of a literary phase that was both identifiable and in some sense over. Its literary roots have been said to be in the work of the French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire and the novelist Gustave Flaubert, in the Romantics, or in the 1890s fin de siècle writers, while its culmination or apogee arguably occurred before World War I, by which point radical experimentation had impacted on all the arts, or in 1922, the annus mirabilis of James Joyce's Ulysses, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Katherine Mansfield's The Garden Party, and Virginia Woolf's Jacob Room.<br /><br />Originally published in <a href=\"https://www.eng-literature.com/2020/06/easy-way-understand-modernism-literature.html\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.eng-literature.com/2020/06/easy-way-understand-modernism-literature.html</a> ", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126370987059716107/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1126385328431038464", "published": "2020-07-05T05:33:09+00:00", "source": { "content": "What is Modernism?\n\nModernism is variously argued to be a period, style, genre, or combination of the above; but it is first of all a word; one which exists alongside cognate words. It’s stem, ‘Modern', is a term that, from the Latin ‘modo’, means 'current’, and so has a far wider currency and range of meanings than ‘Modernism'. In the late 5th century, for example, the Latin ‘modernus’ referred to the Christian present in opposition to the Roman past, modern English is distinguished from Middle English, and the modern period in literature is considered to be from the sixteenth century on, although it is sometimes used to describe twentieth-century writing.\n\nMore generally, 'modern' has been frequently used to refer to the avant-garde, though since World War II this sense has been embraced by the term ‘contemporary’ while 'modern' has shifted from meaning 'now' to 'just now'. It is this sense of the avant-garde, radical, progressive or even revolutionary side to the modern which was the catalyst for the coinage 'Modernism', and it is to this meaning that Rimbaud appealed when insisting \"Il faut etre absolument moderne\"\n\nThe Modern movement in the arts, although seen as being almost synonymous with the advent of the twentieth century, actually goes back to the last decades of the nineteenth century when the foundations of high Victorian culture were facing serious threats from various agencies. As a cultural phenomenon, Modernism saw the departure from preexisting modes of aesthetic engagement to the sphere of art.\n\nModernism applies to literature, music, painting, film, and architecture and to some works before and after this period). In poetry, Modernism is associated with moves to break from the iambic pentameter as the basic unit of verse, to introduce vers libre, (free verse) symbolism, and other new forms of writing. In prose, Modernism is associated with attempts to render human subjectivity in more authentic ways than realism: to represent consciousness, perception, emotion, meaning and the individual's relation to society through interior monologue, stream of consciousness, tunneling, defamiliarisation, rhythm, irresolution and other techniques. The Modernist writers therefore strove, in Ezra Pound's brief phrase, to make it new\"\n\nWith regard to literature, Modernism is best understood through the work of the Modernist authors who wrote in the decades before and after the turn of the twentieth century. One of the first aspects of Modernist writing to strike readers is the way in which such novels, stories, plays and poems immerse them in an unfamiliar world. Modernist writing frequently immerses the reader in a confusing and difficult mental landscape which cannot be immediately understood but which must be moved through and mapped by the reader in order to understand its limits and meanings.\n\nHistory of Modernism\n\nBy contrast ‘Modernism’ was first used in the early 18th century simply to denote trends characteristics of modern times, while in the 19th century its meaning encompassed a sympathy with modern opinions, styles or expressions. In the later part of the 19th century modernism referred to progressive trends in the Catholic Church. In literature it surfaced in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of D'Urbervilles (1891), to denote what he called a general and unwelcome creeping industrial \"ache of Modernism\". In criticism, the context with which this article is concerned, the expression was used, but failed to gain currency by Robert Graves and Laura Riding in their 1927 A Survey of Modernist Poetry. It was only in the 1960s that the term became widely used as a description of a literary phase that was both identifiable and in some sense over. Its literary roots have been said to be in the work of the French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire and the novelist Gustave Flaubert, in the Romantics, or in the 1890s fin de siècle writers, while its culmination or apogee arguably occurred before World War I, by which point radical experimentation had impacted on all the arts, or in 1922, the annus mirabilis of James Joyce's Ulysses, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Katherine Mansfield's The Garden Party, and Virginia Woolf's Jacob Room.\n\nOriginally published in https://www.eng-literature.com/2020/06/easy-way-understand-modernism-literature.html ", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126370987059716107/entities/urn:activity:1126385328431038464/activity" } ], "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126370987059716107/outbox", "partOf": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1126370987059716107/outboxoutbox" }