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MODERNISM - Coggle Diagram

- - - - New ideas in psychology, philosophy and political theory sparked a search for new ways of expression. The Modernists sought to break from the past and explore new fields of investigation, such as urbanization, technology, war, speed, and mass communication.
- - - - James Joyce’s use of the stream-of-consciousness technique owes much to Freud, William James, and Henri Bergson, but it also stems from the narrative dissolution started by Laurence Sterne in the 18th century.
        
        As English modern literature absorbed both past influences and contemporary trends from abroad, it became more cosmopolitan, distancing itself from the upper-middle-class milieu of Victorian society.