GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MODERN AGE

 

THE GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MODERN AGE

The terms,

“Modern”..... “Modernity”......" Modernization".....“Modernist''

is in relation to early twentieth century literature have both fascinated and baffled  in critical screening

1 Modernity "refers to enlightenment as it implies a new state of structures and ideas learning behind the regimentation's of relations and norms and values"

2 The Modernist " ideas and experiments in the arts were discernible in Europe roughly between the year 1890 and 1930"

 They emerged in the form of a movement in the early twentieth century and came out as a reaction of artists and aesthetically inclined intellectual to the crisis of change. The same was also an attempt at giving prime expression to the disillusionment's, and they( the modernist writer) widely spreader of  social disorder following industrialization, technological change and modernization of the society. It was apparent that the scientific materialistic and less-industrial approaches of the previous centuries which had led to changed attitudes and sensibilities and to decline of faith in religion ,by the end of the nineteenth century. 

Modernism as a literary movement is seen as in large part of reaction to the emergence of city life,urban spaces as a central force in society. The dyadic collapse of the distance between subject and object represented a movement from means to is, where ,

Subjectivity : Romanticism stressed the subjectively of experience, 

Modernity:  Modernist writers were more actually conscious of the objectively of their surroundings.

 In modernism the object is, the language does not mean it is, in simpler terms, a shift from acknowledge based aesthetic to a being based aesthetic. This shift is central to modernism.

Modern age characteristics. from TamsaPandya

Modernism is an encompassing label for a wide variety of cultural

movements,

Stream of consciousness:

In literature, stream of consciousness is a method of narration that describes happenings in the flow of thoughts in the minds of the characters. E.X : Ulysses (By James Joyce).

 Wide use of classical allusions:

An allusion is a literary device that makes a very quick reference to a person, place, thing, event from history, or another piece of literature or text. Allusions are brief mentions that do not receive much explanation from the writer.

Juxtaposition of characters:

As a literary technique, the juxtaposition definition is to place two concepts, characters, ideas, or places near or next to each other so that the reader will compare and contrast them.

Intertextuality:

Intertextuality is the shaping of a text's meaning by another text. ... Intertextual figures include: allusion, quotation, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche and parody. Intertextuality is a literary device that creates an 'interrelationship between texts' and generates related understanding in separate works.E.X:James Joyce's novel Ulysses (which is a pastiche of the Greek epic poem the Odyssey).

Personification:

The attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure. the representation of a thing or abstraction in the form of a person, as in art.

Unconventional use of metaphor:

Metaphor, figure of speech that implies comparison between two unlike entities, as distinguished from simile, an explicit comparison signaled by the words like or as.E.X

T.S.ELIOT shattered convention towards looking at the world and how to look reality. Break down what you think you see as to see what is real there,individual strives fro meaning.

 Symbolic representation:

an artistic and poetic movement or style using symbolic images and indirect suggestion to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind. It originated in late 19th-century France and Belgium, with important figures including Mallarmé, Maeterlinck, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Redon. E.X

Darkness- by Joseph Campbell

this poem using the symbol of "Silver ribbon"

it shows the the poet is not interested in the lights of silver ribbon, but he is presenting the failure,which had done. he used the symbol like a star and it may symbolizes the brightness or success which is no longer because of war. this ribbons are nothing else it is a quite escapism from the reality

Satire:

Satire in literature is a type of social commentary. Writers use exaggeration, irony, and other devices to poke fun of a particular leader, a social custom or tradition, or any other prevalent social figure or practice that they want to comment on and call into question.

Multiple narrative points of view:

Telling a story from multiple perspectives is one of the most common ways to create a multiple narrative. This strategy can include either changing narrator or point of view to explain a single incident from multiple perspectives, or it can include using multiple narrators to provide fragments of the same story. E.X,

As a universal proposition modern age was comprise in goals of liberated 

subjectivity, implying an uninhibited expression of the human 

personality. It is an open - minded experimental spirit in the matter of

themes and techniques and an overall passion for originality of

expression. It naturally implies a rejection of certain values and standards,

conventional techniques and forms Modernist literature,a prime example being the love song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot. Modernist literature often features a marked pessimism, a clear rejection of the optimism apparent in Victorian literature. In fact,

 “a common motif in modernist fiction is that of an

alienated individual a dysfunctional individual trying in vain to make 

sense of a predominantly urban and fragmented society.”

so this are the some most important characteristics of the modern age which is tent to modify the expressions of early centuries  towards the new experiments of upcoming century of modern intellectualism.