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Modernist literature, originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and is characterised by a self-conscious separation from traditional ways of writing in both poetry and prose fiction writing. Modernism experimented with literary form and expression, as exemplified by Ezra Pound's maxim to "Make it new."[1] This literary movement was driven by a conscious desire to overturn traditional modes of representation and express the new sensibilities of the time.[2] The immense human costs of the First World War saw the prevailing assumptions about society reassessed,[3] and much modernist writing engages with the technological advances and societal changes of modernity moving into the 20th century. In Modernist Literature, Mary Ann Gillies notes that these literary themes share the "centrality of a conscious break with the past", one that "emerges as a complex response across continents and disciplines to a changing world".[4]
^Pound, Ezra, Make it New, Essays, London, 1935
^Childs, Peter (2008). Modernism. Routledge. p. 4. ISBN 978-0415415460.
^Morley, Catherine (March 1, 2012). Modern American Literature. EDINBURGH University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-7486-2506-2. Retrieved April 20, 2013.
^ Gillies, Mary Ann (2007). Modernist Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 2,3. ISBN 978-0748627646.
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