Modernism Period Flashcards
1
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Time
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Late 19th and early 20th century up until around 1965
2
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Where
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Wide reaching western society
3
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Characteristic
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Self consciousnesses and irony concerning literary and social traditions which led to experiments with form, and new techniques
Broke traditions of what literature was meant to be
No such thing as absolute truth- all relative
No connection with history
4
Q
What did it reject?
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Idea of realism
Uses work of the past in an ironic fashion
5
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Key people
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Marinetti- celebrates violent destruction of the past and linear history to create modernity
Sigmund Freud- theories inspired early modernist writers
