“What Modernism Is” – Clip 1 (5:32); Clip 2 (7:40) 2. “The Enlightenment Vision” Clip 1 (8:18); Clip 2 (6:00); Clip 3 (5:06) 3. “Postmodern Philosophy: Introduction” (3:14) + “Postmodernism’s Themes” Clip 1 (7:57), Clip 2 (7:06), Clip 3 (7:33) Modernism

Modernism

Starting within the early 1900s and lasting via the primary few years of the Forties, modernism is a interval in literary historical past. On the whole, modernist poets protested towards formulaic verse and easy storytelling from the nineteenth century (Eysteinsson, 2018). Industrialization, urbanization, the necessity for an sincere response to a drastically altered actuality, and different elements all contribute to the modernist impetus in numerous literary works (Saint-Amour, 2018). Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and different authors’ prewar writings are thought of modernist, however modernism as a literary pattern is primarily related to the years following World Battle I. Postwar Modernist literature represented a way of disappointment and fragmentation on account of how severely the conflict had taken the foundations of Western civilization and tradition. The search for rebirth and redemption in a barren and spiritually empty terrain is a central theme of T.S. Eliot’s epic poem The Waste Land (1922), a key work of Modernism. Cont…