LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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A radical project of experimentation with literary and artistic form
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A belief in the power of the natural world to communicate transcendent truth
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The use of irony and parody
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Both A and B
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Detailed explanation-1: -In other words, Modernism seeks to find new forms of expression and rejects traditional or accepted ideas. The Main Characteristics of Modern Literature: The characteristics of the Modern Literature can be categorized into Individualism, Experimentation, Symbolism, Absurdity and Formalism.
Detailed explanation-2: -Modernism explicitly rejected the ideology of realism and made use of the works of the past by the employment of reprise, incorporation, rewriting, recapitulation, revision and parody. Modernism also rejected the certainty of Enlightenment thinking, and many modernists also rejected religious belief.
Detailed explanation-3: -At the core of Modernism lay the idea that the world had to be fundamentally rethought. The carnage of the First World War and the Russian Revolution led to widespread utopian fervour, a belief that the human condition could be healed by new approaches to art and design.
Detailed explanation-4: -Three phases of modernity are distinguished here: eurocentric, westcen-tric, and polycentric modernity.