Literary Modernism
A set of cultural and literary attitudes and/or practices characterized by:
(a) an acute sense of cultural crisis;
(b) radical ambiguities about modernization and its consequences for society and culture;
(c) a rejection of or radical discontinuity from tradition(s), especially in the arts, but also in relation to social norms and conventions;
(d) technical experimentation conducted in a spirit of self-reflexivity;
(e) a sense of malaise and/or alienation on the part of the writer or producer of cultural artifacts from the audience or consumer of cultural practices and products.
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