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XX century: changes in society. Automobile, airplane, etc. Freuds theory of unconsciousness and sexuality: affects peoples understanding of mind. Thoretical science: from Newton to Einsten and quantum mechanics.
FIRST MODERNIST WRITERS: Imagist: T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound, in the early 1910s. Imagist poets features: plain speech free verse over closed forms vivid images. shaped as haiku poems: brief and ephemeral presenting a single image / metaphor. Pound soon dissociated modernism and became a literary proponent of vorticism: energy and life over what they saw creating the concentration of energies they dubbed a vortex. MORE MODERNIST WRITERS: T. S. Eliot. Eliot (The Waste Land) and James Joyces (Ulysses). Texts were innovative and controversial (Ulysses banned in the USA and Great Britain), but their eventual acceptance as literary landmarks helped to bring modernism into the canon of English literature. Eliot helped to transform the image of modernism into what Eliot himself called classicism: emphasizing literary past and the impersonality of the work of art. Later modernist writers: Joyce, Eliot, Virginia Woolf: they provided compositional strategies still central to literature. Other writers that contribute to extend modernism: W. H. Auden, Samuel Beckett, Derek Walcott they adapt modernist techniques to new political climates marked by the Cold War Then, literary modernism continues to shape a sense of art as a form of Cultural Revolution that must break with established history: pushing out the boundaries of artistic practice.