ENG 2206 Troy University Characteristics of Modernism Period Paper Requirements Choose to write on either Modernism or Post-Modernism Essay length: at lea

ENG 2206 Troy University Characteristics of Modernism Period Paper Requirements

Choose to write on either Modernism or Post-Modernism
Essay length: at least 500 words
MLA format, 12-point font, Calibri or Times New Roman
Explore at least three characteristics of the literary period
Choose at least three works to analyze (only one poet however) from the period you pick.
Each work will illustrate a separate characteristic of the literary period. See the provided lists.
You will use quotations from the text to support your assertions
You will also offer specific references to highlight your understanding to the text.
Organization: the basic intro, body, conclusion.
Each body paragraph will have a topic sentence.
Spelling matters, grammar matters, clarity matters. Basically, you will choose to write about either Modernism or Post-Modernism.
You will select three of the characteristics of the literary period and apply one each to a particular story or
poet.
You can use only one poet as one of your selections. The other selections will be stories.
You will support your ideas with specific references to the text AND quotations.
Modernism (choose to write on this Period . . . or, see further down)
Literary modernism has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North
America, and is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing. Modernists
experimented with literary form and expression. This literary movement was driven by a conscious desire
to overturn traditional modes of representation and express the new sensibilities of their time. The horrors
of the First World War saw the prevailing assumptions about society reassessed, and much modernist
writing engages with the technological advances and societal changes of modernity moving into the 20th
century.
Characteristics of Modernism (Choose three different ones to explore):
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Worldwide Destruction. During the First World War, the world witnessed the chaos and destruction
of which modern man was capable.
Experimentation. Modernist writers broke free of old forms and techniques.
Cultural Fragmentation. Related to the theme of destruction is the theme of
fragmentation. Values don’t mean what they once did.
Marked by a strong and intentional break with tradition. This break includes a strong reaction against
established religious, political, and social views.
There is no such thing as absolute truth. All things are relative.
Their experience is that of alienation, loss, and despair.
Championship of the individual and celebration of inner strength.
Life is unordered.
Subjectivity. The inner workings of consciousness were a common subject
Postmodernism ( . . . or choose to write on this Period)
Postmodernism in literature is a form of literature which is marked, both stylistically and ideologically, by a
reliance on such literary conventions as fragmentation, paradox, unreliable narrators, often unrealistic and
downright impossible plots, games, parody, paranoia, dark humor and authorial self-reference. It is
primarily at post-WWII development. Postmodern authors tend to reject outright meanings in their novels,
stories and poems, and, instead, highlight and celebrate the possibility of multiple meanings, or a complete
lack of meaning, within a single literary work.
Characteristics of Postmodern Literature (Choose three different ones to explore):
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Authors’ tones are ironic, cynical, non-committal, confused, fearful, even playful.
The search for meaning in a world that may not have meaning.
Pastiche: The taking of various ideas from previous writings and literary styles and pasting them
together to make new styles.
Intertextuality: The acknowledgment of previous literary works in another literary work.
Metafiction: The act of writing about writing or making readers aware of the fictional nature of the
very fiction they’re reading.
Time Distortion: The use of non-linear timelines and narrative techniques in a story.
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Minimalism: The use of characters and events which are decidedly common and non-exceptional
characters.
Magical Realism: The introduction of impossible or unrealistic events into a narrative that is otherwise
realistic.
Faction: The mixing of actual historical events with fictional events without clearly defining what is
factual and what is fictional.
Reader Involvement: Often through direct address to the reader and the open acknowledgment of the
fictional nature of the events being described
(pick 3 works from either Modernism or Post-Modernism)
Modernism
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Yeats poems (4 pomes)
The Second Coming
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming (Links to an external site.)
Sailing to Byzantium
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43291/sailing-to-byzantium (Links to an external site.)
Lake Isle of Innisfree
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43281/the-lake-isle-of-innisfree (Links to an external
site.)
When You are Old
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43283/when-you-are-old (Links to an external site.)
A Prayer for My Daughter
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/14635/a-prayer-for-my-daughter
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Metamorphosis
https://www.planetebook.com/free-ebooks/the-metamorphosis.pdf
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Lovesong: Prufrock
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/44212/the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock
Frost poems (I will send you these as a separate Announcement. We didn’t do Frost in our class, but I want
to give you another poet option).
Post-Modernism
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The Guest http://www.sjsu.edu/people/james.lindahl/courses/Hum2B/s2/Camus1.pdf
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Zaabalawi https://pls.nd.edu/assets/131608/zaabalawi/
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Death Constant beyond Love http://www.pelister.org/courses/topics/marquez/death-constant-beyondlove.pdf
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The Headstrong Historian https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/23/the-headstrong-historian
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Drown https://eng1301blog.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/junot-diaz-drown.pdf
Requirements
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Choose to write on either Modernism or Post-Modernism
Essay length: at least 500 words
MLA format, 12-point font, Calibri or Times New Roman
Explore at least three characteristics of the literary period
Choose at least three works to analyze (only one poet however) from the period you pick.
Each work will illustrate a separate characteristic of the literary period. See the provided lists.
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You will use quotations from the text to support your assertions
You will also offer specific references to highlight your understanding to the text.
Organization: the basic intro, body, conclusion.
Each body paragraph will have a topic sentence.
Spelling matters, grammar matters, clarity matters.
When you upload your essay into Assignments, it will automatically be scanned by com—and Lord
have mercy on your soul if you plagirize.

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