General Characteristics of the Modern Age

Name: Maru Janak JRoll No: 20Paper Name: The Modernist LiteratureEmail ID: marujanak17@gmail.comSubmitted to :Department Of English

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.

Victorian Art Modern Art

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

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…..”

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.

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.

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

Conclusion

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.

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