GER 1791 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Text, Social Realism, Clairvoyance

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It is the reference to or application of a literary media, or social text" with another literary media, or social text". In literature, it is when a book refers to a second book by title, scene, character, or storyline, or when a book refers to a social text" such as a media, social or cultural story. Effects: transformation of the primary book, prior text or reinterpretation of both. Refers to an experimental style of visual arts, literature and music. Modernist works are often called avant-garde or unconventional and are preoccupied with formal issues rather than content. Several factors that contribute to modernism are the losses of certainty and optimism in human progress and anxiety about the future. Realism vs. modernism: modernism sharply diverged from realism; realism is to record contemporary life to present the real truth" of life whereas modernism is the sensation of the new". A general feeling of discontinuity associated with modernity, a break with traditions.

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