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American Modernisms: Contexts and Contours, modernism - Coggle Diagram

- - - - people don't trust general paradigms anymore
      - focus on individual perspective on the world
      - at the center of modernist texts
        
        the subjective/the individual, the inner lives and their dynamics
        
        instead of supposedly objective realist renderings of outside reality
        
        no trust in an overall explanation of the world -> individual perspective on the world
        
        multiple perspectives on things
        
        individual perceptions may not be logical, oftentimes driven by associations, not connected, disjunct, presented in a stream of consciousness technique
        
        emphasis moves to the subconscience and the possibly darker and transgressive layers of human experience
        
        modernists focus on psychological time over supposedly objective views of time
        
        modernists stress complexity, difficulty
        
        both in regard to the content and the style
        
        why?
        
        they experience the time as very complex/disturbing/difficult for them
        
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        style and language can be very complicated and elaborate
  - - - less moral standards
    - - texts that are a collection of text fragments or hybrid forms instead of clear line narration
      - juxtapositions
- - - - a critique of what they see as a dehumanizing process
        
        critique human society, business ideology, further exploitation of the working people and an ever increasing mass poverty
- - - - emerges and remains in America
      - American experiences, American language, something that is different from European patterns
      - independent development of an American modernism despite all cosmopolitanism
        
        independent emergence of this American strain of modernism
        
        to a certain degree homemade and almost provincial
    - - European patterns of expression, transatlantic modernism
      - turned partly away from America or saw themselves representing America in Europe
  - - - Colonialists and colonial powers interpreted America as somehing new
      - new identity
        
        especially linkable to an identification of America with newness and the search for New Beginnings
        
        holds true for American Ideologies/Euroamerican Ideologies, but also for a literary tradition, modernists could already draw on American frames of reference ( for ex. from Ralph Waldo Emerson or Walt Whitman)
      - tradition of breaking with conventions and of focusing on the individual
        
        in an American context not so new after all
- - - - begin to move towards a new appreciation of form and technique
      - more form, more sticking to form as a way to counter the chaos and collective disorientation
      - new balance between experimentation and tradition