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Modernist Writers Define Modernism


Modernist Writers Define Modernism
A study of modernist literature and its reflection of the authors' society.
4,060 words (approx. 16.2 pages) | 11 sources | MLA | 2002 United States


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This paper examines the modernist writers' contribution to our fallen society. It looks at the anti-Christian themes of modern literature, through the example of the writing of Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Franz Kafka, and Knut Hamsun. The author states that the modernists helped cause the great nation of America to slip away from her Godly heritage.

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"Modernism is a noun that means, a practice, movement, or belief peculiar to modern times. (Webster's) This literature movement is associated with writers such as Thomas Stearn Eliot, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Franz Kafka, and Knut Hamsun. These writers wanted to get rid of the aesthetic burden of the realist novel (Keep)"

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APA Citation:

Modernist Writers Define Modernism (2012, February 10). Retrieved February 14, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Argumentative-Essay-Modernist-Writers-Define-Modernism/9609

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"Modernist Writers Define Modernism" 10 February 2012. Web. 14 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Argumentative-Essay-Modernist-Writers-Define-Modernism/9609>




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