Features of Western Literary Modernism: A Critical Study
مغربی ادبی جدیدیت کے خدو خال: ایک تنقیدی مطالعہ
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https://doi.org/10.66457/tashkeel.v4i1.66Keywords:
Literary Modernism, French poet's Symbolist Manifesto, Modernist Literature, Modernity, Imagism, Symbolism, Maghrabi Jadediat, Humanism, Rationalism, Europe, ExperimentationAbstract
Literary Modernism (LM) is a phenomenon and to some extent a movement that began to manifest itself in Europe in the late nineteenth century and reached its culmination in the third decade of the twentieth century. Its main characteristic is experimentation, which was evident at every level: style, form, technique, subject matter, etc. There is no single clear form of LM, rather it is is a collection of different and even contradictory trends and moods but what they all have in common is an attitude of appreciates novelty and experimentation and discouraging working within established molds. Painting directly influenced literature. The movements: Symbolism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, etc. were originally art movements. The present article tries to trace the spirit of LM that influenced world literature, including Urdu literature.
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