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  2. Literary modernism - Wikipedia

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    Instead of narrative method, we may now use the mythical method. It is, I seriously believe, a step toward making the modern world possible for art." [26] Eliot's own modernist poem The Waste Land (1922) mirrors "the futility and anarchy" in its own way, in its fragmented structure, and the absence of an obvious central, unifying narrative.

  3. Literacy - Wikipedia

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    Literacy is the ability to read and write. Some researchers suggest that the study of "literacy" as a concept can be divided into two periods: the period before 1950, when literacy was understood solely as alphabetical literacy (word and letter recognition); and the period after 1950, when literacy slowly began to be considered as a wider concept and process, including the social and cultural ...

  4. Literacy in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards, as article. You can help. The talk page may contain suggestions. (June 2024) First Lady Barbara Bush with New York City school children at the UNESCO International Literacy Day celebration in 1989 (the same year that the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy was launched) Adult literacy in the United ...

  5. 20th century in literature - Wikipedia

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    Literature of the 20th century refers to world literature produced during the 20th century (1901 to 2000).. The main periods in question are often grouped by scholars as Modernist literature, Postmodern literature, flowering from roughly 1900 to 1940 and 1960 to 1990 [1] respectively, roughly using World War II as a transition point.

  6. List of literary movements - Wikipedia

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    A Mexican artistic avant-garde movement. They exalted modern urban life and social revolution Manuel Maples Arce, Arqueles Vela, Germán List Arzubide: Harlem Renaissance: African American poets, novelists, and thinkers, often employing elements of blues and folklore, based in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the 1920s [98]

  7. Literary theory - Wikipedia

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    In the humanities in modern academia, the latter style of literary scholarship is an offshoot of post-structuralism. [2] Consequently, the word theory became an umbrella term for scholarly approaches to reading texts , some of which are informed by strands of semiotics , cultural studies , philosophy of language , and continental philosophy ...

  8. Modern Language Association - Wikipedia

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    The Modern Language Association of America, often referred to as the Modern Language Association (MLA), is widely considered the principal professional association in the United States for scholars of language and literature. [1] The MLA aims to "strengthen the study and teaching of language and literature". [2]

  9. Early modern literature - Wikipedia

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    The Early Modern period in Persia corresponds to the rule of the Safavid dynasty. In Japan, the "Early Modern period" is taken to last down to 1868 (the beginning of Industrialization during the Meiji period). In India, the Mughal era lasts until the establishment of the British Raj in 1857.