Modernism
~Modernism is a style or movement in the arts that aims to break with classical and traditional forms.
Following are the 8 elements of modernism:
1. experimenting with a new literary form.
2. presenting the thoughts of a character in a nonlinear fashion.
3. reader must decode fragmentary content (as well as experimental content).
4. fragmentary content; there is no whole.
5. reader's must participate: add emotion and draw their own conclusions.
6. artist intentionally present puzzling features because the mystery itself is the message.
7. art echoes and portrays a sense of lonliness and alienation.
8. art represents and questions the declining belief in a higher power.