What is modernism? What are the characteristics of modernist literature?

From the end of 19 to the middle of the 20th century, various avant-garde literary schools and thoughts parted ways with traditional literature and art, that is, modernism.

The emergence of this school has its historical and regional factors: the rise of modern industry, the emergence of a group of middle classes, the relationship between people is becoming more and more alienated, indifferent and withdrawn, society has become an alien force, and people as individuals feel extremely lonely.

Features:

1. Use subjective expression and oppose objective description; Emphasize subjective and random free association.

2. In terms of language form, modernist literature widely uses image metaphor, different styles, punctuation and even spelling methods and arrangement forms to imply people's feelings, impressions and mental states.

3. Modernist literature does not focus on shaping typical characters with distinctive personalities, but on the overall alienation of people, showing the overall alienation of people and society, people and things, people and nature, people and others, and people and themselves.

Modernism pays special attention to the pursuit of novel and grotesque artistic expression in artistic form.

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