Modern/Contemporary Period Flashcards
Between what years was the Modern Period?
1900 to now
What norms were broken down in this period?
Social norms
What was realistically embodied in this period?
Social meanings
What 2 features were separated from context in the Modern Period?
Meanings and senses
What behaviours were portrayed in unmanageable futures?
Despairing individual behaviours
What loneliness did characters experience in this period? What did this cause?
Spiritual loneliness
Alienation
What would readers experience reading texts?
Frustration
What was experienced within characters of texts?
Disillusionment
What 2 historical features of society were rejected in the Modern Period?
History
Outdated social systems
What 2 ideologies of thought were objected to in this era?
Traditional thoughts
Religious thoughts
What substitution of the past was introduced into this era?
Mythology
What Wars’ affected humanity in this period?
WW1/2
What new type of verse was introduced into poetry?
Free verse
What character feature began to appear in literature?
Epiphanies
What 3 forms were most texts of the periods written in?
Speeches
Memoirs
Novels
