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Literary modernism - Coggle Diagram
Literary modernism
Subgenres
Imagism
Surrealism
Symbolism
Voticism
Futurism
Expressionism
Literary impressionism
experiments with literary form and expression
INDIVIDUALISM
FRAGMENTATION (disjointed perspectives on the social reality)
STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
FORMALISM (literature is a CRAFT rather than a flowering of CREATIVITY
allusions to MYTHS and STORIES from another time
an overwhelming use of FIGURES OF SPEECH
technological advances and societal changes
advances in social sciences(for example Sigmund Freud theory)
INDUSTRIALIZATION
the global adoption of CAPITALISM
URBANIZATION
an objective type of realism
themes depict a breakdown of societal norms
search of responses to the much changed world
depressive behaviour in the face of alienation and loneliness
uncertainty about the future
the First World War reshapes social assumptions
a conscious break with the PAST
desire for metaphysical truths
new ideas in PSYCHOLOGY