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Characteristics of Modernism

Published on Mar 15, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Modernism

1910-1945
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Subjectivity

How something is seen, not just what is seen
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Multiple perspectives

Movement away from objective 3rd-person narrator
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Fragmentation

collage and discontinuous narrative

experimental structures

non-chronological, repetitive, cyclical

Blurring of genres

breakdown of poetry vs. prose
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stream-of-consciousness

capture how the mind works
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