Modernism
ModernismModernism may be seen as a literary movement, spanning the period from the last quarter of the 19th cent. in France and from 1890 in Great Britain and Germany to the start of the Second World War. It may also be viewed as a collective term for the remarkable variety of contending groups, movements, and schools in literature, art, and music throughout Europe over the same period: Symbolism , Post-Impressionism, Decadence, Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism , Imagism , Vorticism , Futurism , Dada , Surrealism , and so on. The period was a time of confrontation with the public, typified by the issuing of manifestos, the proliferation of ‘little magazines’, and the rapid dissemination of avant-garde works and ideas across national borders or linguistic barriers.
The Modernist novel is often non-chronological, with experiments in the representation of time such as sudden jumps, temporal juxtapositions, or ‘spatialization of...
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