Modernism

Question 1

Modernism
Aesthetics reaction in modernism is divided into 3 features

Answer 1

1. Fragmentation
   
   • End of organic unity
   • No creativity
   • Collage=key point for representing reality + metropolitan uncertainty and incoherence
2. Interiorization of mimesis
   
   • Inward turning
   • Stream of consciousness
   • Exteriorization
3. Literature as technique
   
   • Produced manifestos
   • “The artist as critic”
   • Self-conscious

Question 2

Modernism Characteristics

Answer 2

Emerges in 1900 as a reaction against realism, breaks with the past introducing new techniques. There is an ideological reaction based on Liberationism and focused on aesthetics (divided in 3 features)

Question 3

Modernism: Gertrude Stein style and works

Answer 3

STYLE:
- No decoration, very to the point
- Simple, declarative sentences (clear language)
- Strong presence of repetition
- Multiperspectivism
- Rhythm

“Three Lives”
“The Making of Americans: The Hersland Family”
“The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas”
“Tender Buttons”
“Four Saints in Three Acts”