Modernism

= Characteristics: =
 * = Rejects traditional values. =
 * = Freedom of language; stream of consciousness. =
 * = Alienation from society. =
 * = Procrastination; an inability to act. =
 * = Fear of death. =
 * = Inability to feel or express love. =
 * = Agonized recollection of the past and a desire to return to a state of innocence and virtue. =
 * = Literature as art. =
 * = Practice of using symbolic meaning. =
 * = Pursuit of the American dream. =
 * = Focus on progress--finding out what doesn't work and replacing it. =
 * = Grief over loss of past; fear of eroding traditions. =
 * = Decadence and decay. =
 * = Sense of place; local color. =

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= WRITERS: =

= E. E. Cummings =

= William Faulkner =

= @John Knowles =

= @John Steinbeck =

Page updated 8/14/15.