Modernism and Modernist Literature

Christina Ortega March 30, 2013 contemporaneity and Modernist Literature Modernism is the drift in visual artworks, music, literature, and drama which rejected the old Victorian standards of how art should be made, consumed, and what it should mean. The concept was what is concreteity? It used art and literature to iterate humankind, and traditions cultivated in Romanticism and Victorianism. It was against altogether traditions. The Modernist Period in face Literature occupied the years from shortly after the beginning of the twentieth century through roughly 1965.The period was marked by jerky and unexpected breaks with traditional ways of viewing and interacting with the world. Experimentation and individualism became virtues, where in the past they were often completely discouraged. In the world of art, generally speaking, Modernism was the beginning of the distinction between high art and low art. Still, the well-nigh effective poets and novelists did manage to make dee p statements that were absorbed by the full of society and not just the writers inner circles.In Modernist literature, it was the poets who took fullest favour of the new spirit of the times, and stretched the possibilities of their craft to lengths not previously imagined. In general, at that place was a disregard for most of the literary making of the last century. The pastime be characteristics of Modernism Marked by a strong and think break with tradition. This break includes a strong reaction against established religious, political, and friendly views. Belief that the world is created in the act of perceiving it that is, the world is what we say it is. in that respect is no such thing as absolute truth. All things ar relative. No connection with hi horizontal surface or institutions. Their experience is that of alienation, loss, and despair. Life is unordered. have-to doe with with the sub-conscious. Ambrose Bierce, turn of the century Californias one of the mos t notorious writers. Ambrose was known as Bitter Bierce and his motto was Nothing Matters. Although Bierces devastating short stories about the war Between the Statesmost particularly An Occurrence at Owl brook Bridge.The first page and a half during which the condemned, Peyton Farquhar, is yet strange offers a clear description of a military hanging how it is done, who stands where and who gives the orders, how gentlemen are not excused from the noose. Farquhar, after his escape, his senses supernaturally alert, notices something that would have been commented upon in the camps of the courteous War the gray eyes of a sharpshooter. He remembers that hed heard all of the most famous sharp-shooters have gray eyes.Then it turns out to be a mere dream of survey for Peyton. It was a sudden flash of what he would have wanted to happen. With the end of this story resulting in him seeing his married woman at one last glance before the reality of his death. This story was written is a wa y that I the referee hadnt quite an was able to even distinguish that it was merely a dream of thought till the sudden death. The story was very vivid in contingent and descriptive. Portrayed a sense of reality giving aspects of what could have happened.Gave me the reader a moment of shock when figuring out it wasnt real and he had actually been executed. In conclusion the entire story was a great example of a modernist story. Gave me a great example of how he wrote a short store making me determine the true reality of it. This modernist literature definitely made a social statement. Made you go steady how we as people do this all the time. Ive been in umpteen situations where I can imagine another outcome yet, reality strikes and I realize its happening. Works Cited 1.Lewis, Pericles. The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism. Cambridge Cambridge UP, 2007. Print. 2. Lorcher, Trent. Modernism in Literature What argon Characteristics of Modernism in Writing? Bright Hub Education. Bright Hub Education, 2 Mar. 2012. Web. 30 Mar. 2013. 3. Rahn, Josh. Modernism. Literature Periods & Movements. The Literature Network, 2011. Web. 30 Mar. 2013. 4. Stern, Jewel, Kevin W. Tucker, and Charles L. Venable. Modernism in American silver-tongued 20th-century Design. Dallas, TX Dallas Museum of Art, 2005. Print.