![]() ![]() A conscious experimentation with language to express both its powers and limitations became apparent components in a vast body of modern literature. Placing a greater emphasis upon experimentation, modernist writers took a great interest in purposely disorientating their readership with fragmentation and elements of the absurd. Weary from the weak, unchanging patterns of Victorian writing, a collection of writers sought to break away from pre-existing ‘dead-end’ methods of creating literature by exploring new styles which were expressed in their prose and poetic works. How does this preoccupation emerge in their prose, poetry and/or drama?Īt the turn of the 20th century, a crisis in Enlightenment humanism had began to emerge from the ashes of a dying romantic era, a cultural revolution known as the modernist movement arose as ‘a progressive force promising to liberate humankind from ignorance and irrationality’ (Taket and White, p. Q.Time was of great importance to modernist authors. ![]()
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