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Question 1

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What are the salient features of Morden age of literature?

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Salient Features of Morden Age of Literature

  • Morden age begins after the horrible end of First World War and it had a great impact on the contemporary age and literature. The age modernism cut ties from past traditional form of arts and writing and introduced major literary movement such as Imagism, symbolism, surrealism, Dadaism, expressionism etc.

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Question 2

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Elaborate on Modernism as a hectic and self-conscious movement that rejected conventional modes of artistic representation in favour of radical experimentation

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The 20th century is usually identified as a period of rapid change- a change that was merely brought about by advancement in science and technology and unprecedented scale of political, social and cultural upheaval defines this momentous period. The modern era in one sense begins in the late 19th and early 20th century when the old world finally gi…

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Question 3

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Do you agree that the Modernist novels were deeply concerned with aesthetics and style? Critically examine and justify your answer.

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La tribu prophetique aux prunelles ardentes

Hier s՚est mise en route, important ses petits

Sur son dos, ou livrant a leurs fiers appetits Charles Baudelaire, “Bohemiens en voyage”

The prophetical tribe, that ardent eyed people,

Set out last night, carrying their children

On their backs, or yielding to those fierce appetites Translated by William Aggeler…

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Question 4

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Why do we need to read literature? Or what do we mean by importance of studying literature in our lives?

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Since there are so many definitions of literature and it has been evolved over the ages by different scholars, I am not going to discuss any specific definition of literature. Definition, as I think, itself is an incomplete process which makes walls around the object or target point in order to perceive or understand that point or object, but there…

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Question 5

Appeared in Year: 2023

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Answer all of the following: (Paper 2)

Discuss Modernism as a literary and cultural movement.

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The modernist period started in the early 20th century, after the first world war that spanned from 1914 to 1918, and went on till the 1940s, before the start of the second world war. The period of modernism reflected growth in human society. It is constituted of science, technology, industrialization and development in every sphere of life. The id…

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