paper-9 modernist Literature name maru janak

1. General Characteristics of the Modern Age
Name: Maru Janak J
Roll No: 20
Paper Name: The Modernist Literature
Email ID: marujanak17@gmail.com
Submitted to :Department Of English

2. Introduction
• Modern age Has a fairly distinctive or unique
character.
• It is transformed the whole fabric of private and
social life and wrought a revolutionary change in
the thought and outlook of the English nation.
• It is one of the most turbulent eras in the history of
English Literature.
• It marks a sharp and clear departure from the self-
complacency, compromise and stability of the
Victorian period.
• The change from the old to the new,from blind faith
to rational thinking is very interesting.

3. Victorian Art Modern Art

4. Characteristic of the Modern age
 Anxiety and Interrogation
 Art for life’s sake
 Growing interest in the poor
class and the working classes
 psychology and literature
 The impact of socio-economic
conditions on literature
 The influence of Radio,
Cinema and Television
 The impact of the Two World
Wars

5. Meaning of Modernism
According to
M.H.Abrams , “The term
modernism is used to
identify new and
distinctive feature in the
subject’s forms , concept
and style of literature
and other art…..”

6. Anxiety and Interrogation
Men and women showed an Extraordinary
enthusiasm for speculation, experiement
and reform
The modern man does not accept anything
unless it is tested on touchstone of reason.
Modern industrial and technical progress
has given birth to the spirit of competition.
Everybody wants to come out successful
in the rat race but only a few are crowned
with laurels.
This failure coupled with the complexities
of modern life has resulted in frustration,
anxiety and cynicism.

7. Art for life’s sake
• concentration on the problem
of modern life, role of
realism.
• The realism of modern age
has further been enhanced by
scientific discoveries.
• They rejected the doctrine of
“art for art’s sake”. They
evolved the creed of “art for
life’s sake”, or at least for the
sake of the community.
• The poetry and prose of this
period turned to a serious
mood and had a definite
purpose.

8.  The development of radio, cinema
and television had an enormous
impact on literature.
 Edward Albert “ In so far as the
radio stories, plays and literary
discussions and opened up an
entirely new field for authors, its
influence was for the good…….at
the same time it must be
remembered that film techniques
were the basis of a number of
experiments in the novel.
The influence of Radio, Cinema and Television

9. Different type of characteristic of modern Age.
The literature of the new Age is the literature of
challenge and of the reconstruction of new values.
 age of science and scientific discoveries
 Reconstruction of new values
 Because of political turmoil revolutionary
ideologies rise: Facism, Nazism, communism
takes place.