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MODERNIST LITERATURE - Coggle Diagram
MODERNIST LITERATURE
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Re-estructuring
marked by a break with the sequential, developmental, cause-and-effect presentation of the 'reality' of realist fiction, toward a presentation of experience as layered, allusive, discontinuous.
Language
language is seen as a complex site of our construction of the 'real'; language is 'thick', its multiple meanings and varied connotative forces are essential to our elusive, multiple, complex sense of and cultural construction of reality.
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Tightening of form
an emphasis on cohesion, interrelatedness and depth in the
structure of the aesthetic object and of experience.
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Ambiguous endings
to be more representative of
'reality' -- as opposed to 'closed' endings, in which matters are resolved.
Various themes
question of the reality of experience itself; the search for a ground of meaning in a world without God; the critique of the traditional values of the culture; the loss of meaning and hope in the modern world and an exploration of how this loss may be faced.