Articles for tag: Modernism

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Winesburg, Ohio and Fragmentation

As the 1890s rolled in, there was a shift in the popular literary genre from realism to modernism. Modernism was a new way of thinking for it entailed showing the reality of things. Common trends within books, that defined modernism, were an atmosphere of pessimism and the characters turning out to be something different than ...

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Monet and Cezanne: The Path to Modernism

The Twentieth Century not only marked a new beginning in the social, political and economic world, it was a time of change in the art world as well. With the turn of the century, came new ideas and concepts of how to represent the world around us, moving away from the traditional values and skills ...

Review of Don Delillo’s “Videotape”

Over the years the musical, architectural and literary movements have gone from one extreme to the other. From once being restricted to the boundaries given by authorities, mostly that of the Catholic Church, to the complete rejection of those same restrictions in modernism. Post-modernism can be better understood as a branch of modernism. It has ...

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What is a Bildungsroman Novel?

Bildungsroman is a popular genre of literature that focuses on the social and psychological maturity of its protagonist. It is popularly known today as a coming-of-age story, but the name derives from the German word bildungs which means formation and roman which means novel. A bildungsroman novel typically follows a young character from innocence to ...