ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -High modernism emphasized spatial order as rational design; by standardizing, simplifying and ordering physical space, otherwise complex concepts or entities could be made legible and more easily controlled, including economies.

Detailed explanation-2: -Key elements of modernism include break from tradition, Individualism, and disillusionment. One of the major changes in the modernist era is a break from tradition which focuses on being bold and experimenting with new style and form and the collapse of old social and behavior norms.

Detailed explanation-3: -Modernist innovations included abstract art, the stream-of-consciousness novel, montage cinema, atonal and twelve-tone music, divisionist painting and modern architecture.

Detailed explanation-4: -High modernism is accepted shorthand for the core phase of literary modernism in the 1920s, when Eliot, Joyce, Pound, Woolf, Mann, Kafka, Proust, Gide, and others published pivotal works. While there is consensus about the term’s meaning, the value and significance of the works it designates are highly contested.