Expressed facts or events in ways that changed based on emotion, feeling, or understanding
Modernist writers often favored simple settings.
Modernist writers of fiction tended to prefer indirect characterization. Modernist writers also preferred unreliable narrators. Other literary devices used in modernist writing were stream-of-consciousness and interior monologue.
Existentialism was one of the prominent philosophical influences on modernist writers, but not all modernist writers adhered to existentialism. Many modernist writers drew from a variety of philosophical and literary movements, such as surrealism, naturalism, and symbolism, to express their ideas and themes. Existentialism's focus on individual experience, freedom, and the search for meaning resonated with some modernist writers, but it was not the only philosophy impacting their work.
Virginia WoolfJames Joyce
larger; more varied
In many cases, modernist writers made heavy use of symbolism.
The modernist principle that reality is subjective is best explained when meaning is not found in the external world, but is created in the individual. An example would be Langston Hughes' poem, "Life is Fine", which is about an individual who attempts suicide but ends up deciding that "Life is Fine".The modernist principle that reality is subjective is best explained when meaning is not found.
By exaggerating the truth (apex)
French writers and artists such as Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert, and Edouard Manet.
Mid-19th
to use new forms of plot
Writers from the Modernist period used individualism, intellectualism, and anti-realism in their writing. They also used experimentation in their writing extensively as change just for the sake of change.