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  2. Modernism - Wikipedia

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    Modernism, with its sense that 'things fall apart,' can be seen as the apotheosis of romanticism, if romanticism is the (often frustrated) quest for metaphysical truths about character, nature, a higher power and meaning in the world. [26] Modernism often yearns for a romantic or metaphysical centre, but later finds its collapse. [27]

  3. Literary modernism - Wikipedia

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    Modernism, with its sense that 'things fall apart,' can be seen as the apotheosis of romanticism, if romanticism is the (often frustrated) quest for metaphysical truths about character, nature, a higher power and meaning in the world. [11] Modernism often yearns for a romantic or metaphysical centre, but later finds its collapse.

  4. '100 Years of Solitude' Breathes Life Into a Classic Novel

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    Emerging at the end of a big year for TV adaptations of unfilmable novels, from The Sympathizer to 3 Body Problem to Interior Chinatown, One Hundred Years of Solitude is among the best of the ...

  5. List of modernist writers - Wikipedia

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    Clement Greenberg sees Modernism ending in the 1930s, with the exception of the visual and performing arts. [6] In fact many literary modernists lived into the 1950s and 1960s, though generally speaking they were no longer producing major works. The term late modernism is also sometimes applied to modernist works published after 1930. [7]

  6. Timelines of modern history - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... List of years in literature; ... Richard B. and Graham W. Irwin, eds. Harper Encyclopedia of the Modern World: ...

  7. 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.

  8. Modernist poetry - Wikipedia

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    Modernism developed out of a tradition of lyrical expression, emphasising the personal imagination, culture, emotions, and memories of the poet. For the modernists, it was essential to move away from the merely personal towards an intellectual statement that poetry could make about the world.

  9. Modernismo - Wikipedia

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    Modernismo is a literary movement that took place primarily during the end of the nineteenth and early 20th century in the Spanish-speaking world, best exemplified by Rubén Darío, who is known as the father of modernismo.