produced during the period reflected the thoughts, ideals, doubts and anguish which are the results of scientific, political and economic influence brought about by the advancement in science and technology. This paper aims to highlight the shift in literary works produced during Modernism and the participation of prominent figures during the period. Keywords: modernism, ideals, prominent figures. Introduction: The is not as simple a question as getting a date or a time period and labelling ‘modernism’ everything that falls within the time frame as It does not specifically have an exact ‘modern’. date as to its historical emergence with not much evidence of spirited scholarly discussion about when or how it actually began. However, its standard definition would be: general term applied retrospectively to the wide range of experimental and avant-garde trends “a in the literature(and other arts) of the early twentieth century” According to M.H.Abrams; term is widely used to identify new and distinctive features in subjects, forms, “The ‘modernism’ concepts and styles of literature and other art in early decades of the present century” But what about the artists who already thought of their art as in his essay, “modern”.Witcombe points out to the 14th century artist who in his 1437 book What is art? What is an artist?(1997) describes Giatto as having made painting This dilemma of what “Il Librodell’Art” ‘modern’. modernity or exactly means raises the question to the level that it becomes a ‘modernism’ necessity to have a broader perspective of its true nature. Roots of Modernism: Modernism was said to have begun during the Renaissance as a revolt against the conservative values of Realism. It was a traditional pattern to use God or nature as the centre of all the measures of life, but the spirit of Renaissance already evoked the modernist trend of thought that human beings ultimately held the power to and reshape their environment with “create, improve, the aid of Scientific Knowledge, technology and It evolved and practical experimentation”.
produced during the period reflected the thoughts, ideals, doubts and anguish which are the results of scientific, political and economic influence brought about by the advancement in science and technology. This paper aims to highlight the shift in literary works produced during Modernism and the participation of prominent figures during the period. Keywords: modernism, ideals, prominent figures. Introduction: The ‘modernism’ is not as simple a question as getting a date or a time period and labelling everything that falls within the time frame as ‘modern’. It does not specifically have an exact date as to its historical emergence with not much evidence of spirited scholarly discussion about when or how it actually began. However, its standard definition would be: “a general term applied retrospectively to the wide range of experimental and avant-garde trends in the literature(and other arts) of the early twentieth century” According to M.H.Abrams; “The term ‘modernism’ is widely used to identify new and distinctive features in subjects, forms, concepts and styles of literature and other art in early decades of the present century” But what about the artists who already thought of their art as “modern”.Witcombe in his essay, What is art? What is an artist?(1997) points out to the 14th century artist who in his 1437 book “Il Librodell’Art” describes Giatto as having made painting ‘modern’. This dilemma of what modernity or ‘modernism’ exactly means raises the question to the level that it becomes a necessity to have a broader perspective of its true nature. Roots of Modernism: Modernism was said to have begun during the Renaissance as a revolt against the conservative values of Realism. It was a traditional pattern to use God or nature as the centre of all the measures of life, but the spirit of Renaissance already evoked the modernist trend of thought that human beings ultimately held the power to “create, improve, and reshape their environment with the aid of Scientific Knowledge, technology and practical experimentation”. It evolved and
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