EN 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Bloomsbury Group, James Strachey, Katherine Mansfield
22 Dec 2016
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Modernism is a complex phenomenon: as baldick indicates, the term modernism" has been literature (and other arts) of the early 20th century. " accordingly, baldick"s definition of modernism is wide-ranging. Baldick nonetheless underlines some key characteristics or dimensions generally associated with modernist works: Applied retrospectively to the wide range of experimental and avant garde trends in the the rejection of 19th century traditions and of their consensus between author and reader: the conventions of realism, for instance"; the critique of bourgeois values; A tendency to adopt new literary forms, and especially complex and difficult new forms and styles"; their focus on the fragmentary," on discontinuity; their sense of urban cultural dislocation"; and their awareness of new anthropological and psychological theories. ". Historical context: while critics do not always agree on what works are modernist, or when. For western countries, this was a period of rampant industrialization and urbanization, which led to the transformation of everyday life.
