English Literature / Unit 19 ENL 1822 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Signature of Modernist Writing
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The idea
Modernist writing fragments narrative and verse, uses stream of consciousness, many voices and dense allusion, and favours precise images over statement, as in "April is the cruellest month." Its settings are urban and post-war, and it questions coherent identity.
In practice
Fragment, allusion, stream.
Where people slip
Fragmentation is the method.
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