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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.
‘Modern’ has been frequently used to refer to the avant-garde, though since World War II
It is this sense of the avant-garde, radical, progressive or even revolutionary side to the modern which was the catalyst for ‘Modernism’
The term Modernist, and this applies to literature, music, painting, film, and architecture (and to some works before and after this period).
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, tunnelling, defamiliarisation, rhythm, irresolution and other techniques.
Modernist writers therefore strove, in Ezra Pound’s brief phrase, to “make it new”, to modify if not......

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