Modernism and the Modern Novel Essay -- English Literature

Modernism and the Modern Novel==============================The term modernism refers to the radical skunk in aesthetic andcultural sensibilities evident in the art and belles-lettres of thepost-World War One period. The ordered, stable and inherentlymeaningful world hatful of the nineteenth century could not, wrote T.S.Eliot, accord with the immense panorama of futility and anarchy whichis modern history. Modernism thus marks a distinctive breakwith prim bourgeois morality rejecting nineteenth-centuryoptimism, they presented a profoundly pessimistic picture of a culturein disarray. This despair often results in an apparent impassiveness andmoral relativism.In literature, the movement is associated with the works of (amongothers) Eliot, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound,Gertrude Stein, H.D., Franz Kafka and Knut Hamsun. In their enterprise tothrow off the aesthetic burden of the realist novel, these writersintroduced a variety of literary tactics and devicest he radical disruption of linear flow of narrative the foiling of...