Modernist Literature

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This paper analyzes the works of modernist writers James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot. It stresses the importance of the inner consciousness, while the outer trappings of reality, including classes and gender, are viewed as less important. The paper demonstrates how the modernists are a reaction to the Victorian form of understanding both the world and the self.

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"According to "Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory", the Modernist movement in literature was primarily concerned with presenting a point of view that explicated the writer's and the main character's inner consciousness, rather than dwelling upon externals in the environment or the evolution of any particular plot. Modernism, although its superficial name might seem to connote to a casual reader "modern literature," really is a highly specific literary form that sprung up in reaction to the Victorian form of understanding both the world and the self."

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