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SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION



Modernist literature has its beginning in the late 19th and early 20th century Europe

and America. Modernism was a revolt against the conservative values of realism. Arguably

the most paradigmatic motive of modernism is the rejection of tradition and its reprise,

incorporation, rewriting, recapitulation, revision and parody in new forms. Ezra Pound's

maxim to "Make it new" is a tag word of modernism. It rejected the lingering certainty of

Enlightenment thinking and also rejected the existence of a compassionate, and the concept

of all-powerful creator God.It is an intellectual and artistic movement that developed in

conjunction with, and eventually in opposition to, fully developed modernity. Modernist

artists and intellectuals were disgusted with the banality and "dehumanized" quality of life

in industrial capitalism.