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The Characteristics of Modernism
• 1. Characters reflect a growing social isolation caused by mass industrialism.
• 2. Characters are withdrawn, unresponsive, and hurt by unnamed forces.
• 3. A growing awareness of "The Canon" and the establishment of literary movements.
• 4. An emphasis on tradition, form, and style.
• 5. No narrative voice to guide the reader with explanations and details.
• 6. Alienation and experimentation.
• 7. Modernists tried to capture what psychologists called the "stream of consciousness"--the flow of ideas, memories and associations running through the human mind.
• 8. Modern writers "turned inward" for their subject matter and expressed bitter often despairing cynicism
• 9. Modern writing elevates the individual and the inward over the social and outward.
• 10. Existentialism= existence precedes essence. Things exist in general but they have no meaning for us except as we can create meaning through acting upon them.
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