what are the characteristics of Modernism in Literature?
Asked and answered. Go to Literature/Modernism for a full discussion, and see the scholarship of Irving Howe on this subject. Thoroughly covered in previous answers. The text below is repetition for your convenience:
This term, which originally simply meant “art and literature of these times” was frozen into meaning the period approximately between 1850 and 1914, when the term “post-modernism” was coined. (It’s good to remember that these terms are coined...
