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  • What is literary modernism?

    What is literary modernism?

    I keep saying that Katherine Mansfield is a standout example of a Modernist short story writer, but what does ‘modernist’ really mean? “Make it new!”  EZRA POUND, 1934 The Modernist Timeline  In Wharton and in James, we see the formal precepts of realism taken to their absolute limit—the breaking point before modernism. The traditional nineteenth-century […]

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