E.M Forster's widely admired novel "Howard's End," provides a detailed portrayal of life in Edwardian England; a series of characters exposed as if under a literary microscope. ... The era is now associated with the birth of 'modernism'; a time of artistic and literary progression, as well as social and human transformation. ... There would be no trains, no ships to carry [...] literary people about in, no fields even.' ... In regards to the novel as a whole this particular theme is quite pertinent, as we can retrospectively suggest that without Henry there would be...

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" Rejecting these concepts was among many of the cultural forces that drove literary modernism. ... Modernism, as a literary style is built upon the ideas and concepts found in both literary naturalism and realism; All together the beliefs in these theories reject the basis and ideals of romanticism. ... A main theme in "The Open Boat" is the idea of that constant fear that is lingering in human nature regarding the unpredictable nature of death. ... Gustave Flaubert as a modernist literary legend was a master at the precision of detail in his novel and this emphasized the...

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As major figures in the progressive modernization of literature, both Auden and Thomas moved away from apparent objectivity, a theme once standardized by previous literary figures, and toward subjectivity. ... It is all too common for modern literary works from the 1930s and 1940s to exude human suffering, and Thomas's "The Hunchback in the Park" is no different. ... Even though the reader does take solace in the fact the hunchback at least "has his nights," Thomas's closing lines, " the birds the grass the trees the lake and the wild boys innocent as strawberries had followed the ...

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Post modernism is an artistic and literary movement that quite obviously rejected the previous, modernism, movement in an attempt to analyse and reorganize the existing modes of art practice. ... Similarly, they rejected art or themes particular to the context. ... Essentially, postmodernism uses art history imagery as its resource in a cannibalistic fashion, in a "way" that challenged art's audience, perception, themes, techniques and art in general. Pop art, in a dada-istic anti-art fashion, used commercial images in a rapidly commercializing world to challenge art's audience, perc...

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Furthermore, Yeats masters the traditional sonnet which commonly addresses romantic themes, but he corrupts the literary mode by depicting rape, a taboo act against the tradition of love-making. ... Through 'The Second Coming' and 'Leda and the Swan', Yeats was able to express how temperamental themes such as cycles of birth and destruction could be permanent, through his theory of fate fulfillment....

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