Theory-1 Modernism

Modernism
Root word is MODO which means change.

It is an EuroAmerican movement.

In England, modernist poetry was influenced by French symbolism represented by Rimbaud, Laforgue, Mallarmé, Baudelaire which together led to Modernism.

Its Anti-Aestheticism & Anti-Realism.

It challenges the 19th century.

Doubt & mistrust of authority, new Narrative Techniques, questioning past truth, doubting & asking everything what is what, questioning history and civilizations is all about modernism.

A series of other movements came out of it. There were prominent thinkers & precursors who triggered this movement & ISM.Will to power, Beyond Good & Evil, Thus spoke the Zarathustra written by Friedrich Nietzsche are important books that incited Modernism.

To Nietzsche, morality is constructed as is seen in hisWill to Power. Morality aimed to live with or due to some reason morality was abided. Nietzsche influenced other movements SURREALISM & DADAISM. Modernism starts in the 19th century with the change of the industrial world. Charles Baudelaire & Gustavo Flaubert also belong to Modernism.

The Humanitarian Spirit-Egalitarian society, Symbolism & the Language of Everyday Life were Modernism's traits. Except James Joyce, Jacques Derrida, et. al. who involved in opaque writing, almost all other writters deliberately used everyday language to go against the old canon of ornated language. This everyday language used by Modernist writers has the common man's metaphors.

Modern is opposed to the ancient,the tradition & to the middle ages. We place the term in a stream of time. We relate it in absolute relativity of time. Whatever is modern has come from endless sense of time. It is now here and gone. Modern qualities can be discovered even in the remotest past or all along the past.

Modernity is the condition of being modern. It has more simpler meaning. It gives the creation. For example, how much external forces exert impact on us? Or, how we influence outside?- is Modernity.

The concept of modernism has to rescued from absolute time and space relativism.


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