[lKATl]

Okay, if i pose this on the wrong place, please move my thread. -----> Moving on...

I'm stuck on my home work for a couples days now, so i was wonding if anyone could help me on this question.

"What are the writing characteristics of modernism?"

I only had one and is stream of consciousness. If anyone could help, i'll gladly to thanks you..

[esm90]

I'm guessing you mean Modernism in American literature. Most of these are notes straight out of my notebook.

- experimented with forms of stories and poetry to show that society is getting more fragmented (no longer a national culture)
- rejected the traditional Romantic and realist themes, specifically about the American Dream
- Modernists rejected the American heroic ideal in favor of a more complicated and compromised main character
- a further interest in the workings of the mind (streams of consciousness)
- some authors/poets: Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, e.e. cummings, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Elliot, Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Richard Wright

The Modernist view of the world:
- the American Dream is probably an illusion
- The idea of a "heroic", unbeatable hero is not true; new heroes are flawed but still capable of some kind of greatness