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F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Modernist Movement, 2002.
Discusses the main characteristics of the modernist movement in literature and F. Scott Fitzgerald's role in the movement.
1,636 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 78.95
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This paper looks at the emergence of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a leader in the modernist movement of literature. It looks at the defining characteristics of modernism and how the uniqueness and newness of Fitzgerald's style of writing put him in the forefront of modernist writers. Fitzgerald's famous works of art and the characters within them are used to aptly illustrate Fitzgerald as one who spearheaded the modernist movement.
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"Modernist literature is also the result of the writer seeking to save mankind from the ?deadening features? of what became known as everyday life. The Modern artist, according to Paul Lauter, editor of The Heath Anthology of American Literature, felt a need to ?challenge and reinvigorate? the ever-growing urban, industrial society. (935) In order for this reinvigoration to be successful, new styles of writing were needed to express the new ideas and values. From this need, Modernism arose and became what one critic called a ?tradition of the new? (935). However, more than anything, modernism meant breaking away from traditional responses and ?predictable forms?."
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Akutagawa Ryunosuke and the Modernist Movement, 2002.
A paper which discusses the life and works of Japanese author, Akutagawa Ryunosuke within the modernist period that he lived.
2,470 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 3 sources, APA, AU$ 110.95
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The paper explores the life and literary pieces of Japanese writer and poet, Akutogawa Ryunosuke who was one of the first writers of the Japanese modernist movement to be translated widely into English. The paper shows that Akutagawa is probably best known for his single short story ?Rashomon?, which inspired director Akira Kurosawa?s film of that name in 1950. In order to understand the times in which Akutogawa lived and worked, the paper defines modernism and explains the difference between Japanese and Western modernism.
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"The stories that Akutagawa wrote and that Kurosawa adapted were in fact based on stories that had probably been compiled in the 10th century. Akutagawa would over the course of his short professional life adopt many ancient Japanese stories, seeming to prefer tales that were both Gothic and based on pre-modern elements. His settings, as grotesque and bizarre as any that Edgar Allan Poe could ever have dreamed up, would have struck his readers as standing in obvious contrast the to ?civilized? state of Western-influenced 20th-century Japan."
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The Modernist Movement, 2007.
An analysis of "Murder in the Cathedral" by T.S. Eliot and "Saint Joan" by George Bernard Shaw.
1,748 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 82.95
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The paper discusses T.S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral" and George Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" within the scope of the modernist movement. The analysis uses these works as the context for discussing ideas about the development of literary modernism. The paper presents a brief exploration of modernism and defines it as a general term applied to experimental and avant-garde trends in the literature of the early 20th century. The paper explains that within literature, modernism is characterized by a rejection of 19th-century traditions such as religious norms and conventional beliefs. The paper offers modernist parallels between "Murder in the Cathedral" and "Saint Joan."
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Modernism Defined
Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral"
Shaw's "Saint Joan"
Modernist Parallels Between "Murder in the Cathedral" and "Saint Joan"
Closing Thoughts on Modernism
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"In 1935, TS Eliot wrote "Murder in the Cathedral", a work that encapsulated many of the themes of the modernist point of view: the examination and questioning of modern religious beliefs, the faith of people in the essential goodness of their fellow human beings, and the validity of the submission of free thinking people to the will of God. When the Knights in the tale kill the priest within the cathedral itself, there is more than human flesh being put to death; rather it is feasible that Eliot was showing the death of faith and the fading away of the religious institutions that shaped the lives of so many, and as such, was showing support for the core of the modernist mindset."
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Family Betrayal in Myth, Modernist and Post-Modernist Drama, 2008.
A comparison of Susan Hazen Hammond's short story "The Kidnapped Wife and the Dream Helper," Arthur Miller's drama "All My Sons" and P.J. Gibson's play "Long Time Since Yesterday".
1,316 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 64.95
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The paper examines Susan Hazen Hammond's short story "The Kidnapped Wife and the Dream Helper," Arthur Miller's drama "All My Sons" and P.J. Gibson's play "Long Time Since Yesterday" that all dramatize the struggles of individuals trapped in uncomfortable family relationships. The paper shows how the three works contain vastly different conceptions of what constitutes the human character and how a character should be dramatized over the course of a story. The paper highlights, however, the consistent themes in these works, such as the family relationships that are based on lies and the lesson that true fulfillment cannot be found in material success or in the esteem of the world.
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"Hammond's tale is a retelling of a Native American myth. The character, even the most dynamic character of the piece that of the male warrior, father, and husband, is not what a modern reader would call a well-rounded character. He is compltetly 'bad' at the beginning of the piece, ignoring his wife, then suddenly shifts to being a 'good' character, in the quest to recover her. In the Miller piece, Joe Keller and his son Christ are depicted as far more complex, psychologically rounded characters. Joe Keller wants to do good things, and help his family prosper, but he commits evil actions in his quest. Unlike the Native American fable, character, and the failures of character drive the plot of the tale. Finally, the Gibson work, takes a post-modernist view of the characters of Janeen and Layer. The play is a 'memory play,' dramatizing the differences between how we remember the past and the reality of the past."
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Franz Kafka and Modernism, 2007.
This paper explores the central meaning and intention in Kafka's works and relates this to the Modernist movement.
2,515 words (approx. 10.1 pages), 10 sources, MLA, AU$ 111.95
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In this article, the writer looks at how Franz Kafka is one of the most enigmatic and interesting figures in literature. The writer notes that Kafka's work has left an enduing impression on world literature as well as on popular culture. The writer discusses and explains the term "Kafkaesque", which has entered into ordinary vocabulary and conversation. The writer concludes that the works of Franz Kafka are representative of the central ethos and tents of the Modernist movement in literature. Further, the writer points out that Kafka's central themes, which emanate from a critique of his contemporary world, are the dislocation of identity and meaning and modern despair and confusion.
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Introduction
Modernism
Kafka, Alienation and Modernism
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"From the point of view of world literature, the works of Franz Kafka have created a specific genre or literary niche. Much of the value of his writing lies however in the fact that it forms part of a general trend of literature in the 20th century. This is the Modernist movement in thought and art. Many critics are of the opinion that Kafka is closely aligned to the central movements in thought and literature during that period associated with Modernism; such as existentialism. In essence, the writings of Franz Kafka have become an integral part of the body of work written in the first half of the Twentieth Century that has become known as Modernism."
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Ne-Modernist Design, 2006.
This paper compares neo-Modernist design to post-Modernist design and analyzes the neo-Modernist reaction to post-Modernist design.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 64.95
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This paper discusses neo-Modernist reaction to post-Modernism's nihilism and relativism in a return to an emphasis on materials and intended function. The paper includes examples and provides several theoretical comments in addition to addressing the significance of the examples provided.
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"The post-1985 Neo-modernist movement has sought to recover the sometimes stark, functionalism of Modernism but taking into account its critique. The results include architecture and other design that can be aesthetic and far less utilitarian in appearance than its 20th century predecessor of Modernism. Also, neo-Modernism offers a response to the more jarring or whimsical elements of what was considered post-modern design, in an effort to restore design for people, and not just an appreciative elite wishing to probe the limits of post-modern experimentation."
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Archigram and Metabolist Movements, 2005.
A discussion on the English Archigram and the Japanese Metabolist movements and their artistic influences.
2,300 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 115.95
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This paper compares and contrast the English Archigram movement and the Japanese Metabolist group. It explains how these English Archigram movement embraced pop culture and high tech innovation and designed imaginary cities of the future where buildings walk and cities move. The author explores how the Metabolist group incorporated traditional Japanese architectural ideas into the Modernist idiom.
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"According to the Oxford Dictionary of Architecture an architect is a person capable of preparing the plans elevations and sections of a design of a sophisticated building with an aesthetic content and to supervise its construction ..."
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James Joyce: Modernist Writer, 2005.
Essay focusing on the work, "Dubliners", and how James Joyce portrays himself as a modernist writer.
1,058 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 0 sources, MLA, AU$ 54.95
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The essay highlights the ways in which James Joyce should be considered a modernist writer. The paper includes comments from many critics, including William York Tindel, and quotations from Shakespeare. Many modernist writing techniques are revealed that conventional writers would not have used. The use of symbolism is shown as well as examples that show Joyce using realism to portray himself as a modernist writer. The two central short stories used to convey Joyce as a modernist are 'Araby' and 'Two Gallants'. There are also examples taken from 'The Sisters'. The essay also demonstrates how Joyce uses religion to show Dublin in a state of paralysis, which is one of the central themes seen throughout the collection.
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"James Joyce's "Dubliners", a collection of short stories published in 1907, revolves around the everyday mundane lives of Dublin and its citizens. According to Joyce himself, his intention was to ?write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because the city seemed to be the centre of paralysis?. James Joyce is a modernist writer as he also does not conform to the traditional style of writing genre which conventional writers such as Jane Austen would have used at the time. Joyce believed that they modernists should ?As t?were hold the mirror up to nature? (hamlet, William Shakespeare). Joyce believed that a revelation of truth would free Dublin?s citizens from the paralysis of Dublin and their daily life?s. Joyce felt that due to the secularisation and the industrialisation of Dublin at the time the citizens were left in a state of paralysis with no escape. ?The stories portray Joyce?s feeling that Dublin is the epitome of paralysis and all of the citizens are victims?. (Levin 159)."
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Modernist Writers Define Modernism, 2002.
A study of modernist literature and its reflection of the authors' society.
4,060 words (approx. 16.2 pages), 11 sources, MLA, AU$ 159.95
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This paper examines the modernist writers? contribution to our fallen society. It looks at the anti-Christian themes of modern literature, through the example of the writing of Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Franz Kafka, and Knut Hamsun. The author states that the modernists helped cause the great nation of America to slip away from her Godly heritage.
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"Modernism is a noun that means, ?a practice, movement, or belief peculiar to modern times. (Webster?s) This literature movement is associated with writers such as Thomas Stearn Eliot, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Franz Kafka, and Knut Hamsun. These writers wanted to get rid of the aesthetic burden of the realist novel (Keep)"
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Modernist Literature and the Denial of History, 1995.
A discussion on whether modernist literature engages in a denial of history through analysis of the works of James Joyce, T.S. Eliot and Joseph Conrad.
2,722 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 7 sources, APA, AU$ 118.95
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This paper discusses George Lukacs statement that modernist literature engages in a ?denial of history, of development, and thus, of perspective.? It explores how history is treated in literature by examining the ways in which so much of modernist literature and in particular James Joyce's "Ulysses" and T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland" and Joseph Conrad?s "Heart of Darkness" are re-writings of older texts. It also looks at the way history is diminished by characters such as Leopold Bloom by discussing the importance of perspective.
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"In these fragments, history is deconstructed, but only to be pieced together again, according to our own individual perspectives. In this way, the possibilities of history are endless: history is constantly recreated, and, in answer to Stephen Dedalus?s complaint that ?history is to blame? for the wrongs of society, we an say that we construct history itself in much the same way that we construct society: perhaps any problems are then caused by our own perspectives, or by our lack of understanding of this point - a willingness to believe in the immutability of history."
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Modernist Poetry, 2005.
This paper compares the modernist poetry of T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats to Victorian poets Thomas Hardy and Gerald Manley Hopkins.
990 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 8 sources, MLA, AU$ 51.95
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This paper explains that T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats, who are considered to be the quintessential examples of the modernist literary artists, were both extremely critical of their age and social milieu. The author points out that the Victorian poets Thomas Hardy and Gerald Manley Hopkins also were concerned with predicaments of their age, but their poetry does not have the same intensity and desperation to escape the past that is evident in the works of Eliot and Yeats. The paper concludes that the central similarity of all these poets is the search for a reality, which transcends the ordinary life; whereas, the different between the two eras is the modernist poets are convinced that finding new realities and values has become an inescapable and essential quest in light of the decline of modern civilization. Quotations.
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"Modernist literature has been characterized by the phrase "caught between two worlds." This refers to the view that the modernist poets and writers were attempting to deal with previous traditions and worldviews which they were intensely critical of. At the same time they were endeavoring to finds new ways of artistic vision and expression. Essentially the poets in the early Twentieth Century were faced with a radical shift in ideas and views about reality and society which had been engendered by discoveries in, amongst others, the fields of science and psychology; such as the Freudian discovery of the unconscious. The First World War was also to pay a large part in the questioning of the norms of values of Western society in general."
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Modernist Literature, 2002.
A study of modernist literature through the works of Joyce, Woolf and Eliot.
940 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 48.95
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This paper analyzes the works of modernist writers James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot. It stresses the importance of the inner consciousness, while the outer trappings of reality, including classes and gender, are viewed as less important. The paper demonstrates how the modernists are a reaction to the Victorian form of understanding both the world and the self.
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"According to "Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory", the Modernist movement in literature was primarily concerned with presenting a point of view that explicated the writer?s and the main character?s inner consciousness, rather than dwelling upon externals in the environment or the evolution of any particular plot. Modernism, although its superficial name might seem to connote to a casual reader ?modern literature,? really is a highly specific literary form that sprung up in reaction to the Victorian form of understanding both the world and the self."
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Structuralist and Modernist Theories, 2007.
This paper presents a comparative analysis of structuralist and modernist theories.
1,300 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 63.95
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In this paper, the author compares and contrasts structuralist and modernist philosophical theories. The first part of the analysis enumerates the similarities the theories have with each other, especially in terms of each theory's operational definitions, centering specifically on the role each theory has in the development of functionalism in the 20th century. The second part discusses the differences between structuralism and modernism, which is primarily based on the difference worldview that each tackles, in relation to modern human society.
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"An important characteristic that both structuralism and modernism share is that each theory was borne out of the emergence of the empirical, newly-modernized human society in the 20th century. Primarily described as the modern period, human society at this stage and period in history is known to be logical in its thinking and actions, a direct result of the era of objectivism and empiricism that was developed through the years, accelerating its development during the 19th century. Structuralism as a theory is descriptive of empiricism, which seeks to establish a general fact through a careful analysis of specific elements that comprise or make up this general fact. Modernism is also a theory that describes the modern period, since this theory sprang from the emergence of a modernist movement that was actively promoted by the United States in the mid- to late-20th century, as an opposition to the emerging socialist societies in Asian and East European nations."
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T.S. Eliot and Modernist Poetry, 2008.
An analysis of how T.S. Eliot's poems, "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" and "The Wasteland's The Burial of the Dead", are examples of modernist poetry.
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This paper discusses how, straying from the earlier romanticizing of 19th century existence, modernist poets, including T.S Eliot, attempted to critique the lifestyle of early 20th century western civilization. In particular, the paper looks at how Eliot's poems, "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" and "The Wasteland's The Burial of the Dead", depict the negative perception that Eliot had of his society. It examines how, through both the verse and poetic techniques such as fragmentation, Eliot conveys his personal belief of the demise of the upper and lower social classes of 'modern' society through criticism, prophecy and the re-examination of individual existence.
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"In 1915, Eliot published 'Prufrock and other observations', immediately suggesting the critical nature that his poetry was to undertake. Eliot's poetry is a compilation of observations and the manner in which he collaborated his poetry is further indication into the criticism that Eliot had of his society. Throughout 'The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock', this technique of criticism elaborated by the use of fragmentation is evident through the absence of a poetic flow and continual themes that carry through the entire poem. This fragmentation is further portrayed through reference to several unrelated art and literature figures such as Michelangelo, Dante and Lazarus and unrelated passages of thought such as the reference to mermaids at the end of the poem The common perception of Eliot's writing style being a 'collage' of thoughts and opinions is central to both his personal addition to his poetry and to the Modernist perception. "
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Catalan Modernist Artists, 2004.
An analysis of the French influence on Catalan modernist artists.
3,353 words (approx. 13.4 pages), 12 sources, MLA, AU$ 139.95
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This paper focuses on the modernist or "modernista" movement of the early 20th century and examines how French culture and artists of the time influenced these artists. The paper also discusses how these influences bled through to their own cultural identity and expression in Spain.
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"It is difficult to imagine the art world without a French influence. It seems that throughout history much of art has been based out of French culture and social ideas. The central location for such artistic creation has primarily been that of Paris, France. It seems that many artists have journeyed there for education or intellectual freedom of expression. It is a special place, a place that thrives on the energy art represents to the world. Even today, it is the place to be an artist. There is a certain allure and safety as if an artist's identity automatically fits with Paris. Maybe the draw can be attributed too much of its pulse is generated by art and the museums there that house art. This pulse breeds a certain rhythm artistic people can relate to and feel comfort. This in not to say that art cannot be produced in other cities. It just seems that many artistic movements have found their beginnings in this city. Still I think the reason that many movements thrive elsewhere is because artists take their experiences home with them. The cultural influence carries over to their new environment."
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Pop Art, Rock 'n Roll Music and Modernist Literature, 2007.
An analysis of pop art, Rock 'n Roll music and modernist literature in the 20th century.
1,094 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 56.95
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This paper provides a three-tiered analysis of the most important trends in art, music and literature since 1890. In the paper, Andy Warhol represents the important trend of pop art, the Rolling Stones represents the important trend of Rock 'n' Roll in popular music and finally, Ernest Hemingway represents the crucial trend of modernist literature in the 20th century. It shows how these trends are an important part of the cultural identity of the 20th century, which impart crucial influences as to how art, music and literature evolved in this time frame.
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"The insanity and terror of war of this kind is the direct result of losing one's honor in a battle field that had little to do with chivalry and honor. Modernism reflects the reality and horror of war, as Hemingway clearly indicates in his response to coming home and telling his story to the local people in his town. In an age of machines and World Wars, Hemingway was a part of the important trend of literary Modernism, which provided the reality of war that counteracted the romanticism of war in the 19th century."
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