Modernism and Experience

When trying to depict or analyze the whole era of modernism literature and modernism, these writers challenge many central beliefs about existence, regardless of whether they are related to themselves or the outside world doing. Among the many things modernism literature has done, one controversial argument is that modernity is trying to weaken the concept that the outside and inside are separate. In contemporary writings, writers like Joyce and Woolf act to promote the concept of truth, belief, and knowledge by compromising the traditional literary form by combining experience in the organs / materials world .

Modernism breaks the past. Modernism rejects old-fashioned ideas such as heroism and moral belief, as compared to writing in the 19th century, which tends to strengthen the present situation. Likewise, contemporary writer does not claim traditional prose and poetry, but attempts format and style. Inspired by the destruction of World War I, the writers of "confused generation" have a cynical view of human nature. Fitzgerald himself is a member of a modernist who frequently encounters in Paris (Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Sinclair Lewis, painter Picasso, Matisse etc). Fitzgerald surrounded by the people of this group and wrote The Great Gatsby in Paris

Modernism - movement from 1900 to 1950. In short, modernism is about change, a change in society and a change in literary form. Modernism literature represents the changes experienced as traditional societies become modern, and such changes can be painful. Meanwhile, Americans witnessed the destructive effects of World War I, Black Friday, the subsequent stock market crash, Great Depression and World War II, many people disappointed. Also in this era, Darwin's theory of evolution, the challenge to traditional thinking about religion, Carl Marx's theory of communism, the challenge to the current government's concept, and the challenge to Sigmund Freud's unconscious thinking, to humanity The challenge is a traditional concept. Many modernist writers reflect this disillusionment and confusion by casting doubts on traditional values ​​and beliefs and drawing American failures of dreams.

Sigmund Freud recently announced the Sigmund Freud collection of Congress libraries. Freud's quest for loss of consciousness and creation of psychoanalysis has deeply influenced the history of contemporary culture and thought, and as Princess Mary Bonaparte once wrote analysts and mentors, his work in the history of human thought We have established a position. This series which could only be used in Washington until now can enter the world in an unprecedented way. An online collection funded by generous grants from the Polonsky Foundation