Modernity

[sareyfairey]

What is Modernity in Literature?

[dot.hawkes]

A movement stemming from a French cultural change that emerged after the scientific and technological breakthroughs of the mid-late 1800s, They set out to break away from the traditionalists and create a modern world of culture that was inventive and radical. virginia Woolfe. James Joyce William Faulkener for e.g., it was a movement that spread across all art and design genres and saw the beginning of what would pave the way for Picasso to emerge.

[dot.hawkes]

made it sound a bit simple there it is actually ncredibly complex and linked to a whole host of idealogies and social theories.

[jno]

is it the same as Modernism?

[mummytait]

It's part of modernism.

Modernism is the movement that spread across all cultural endeavour. Visual arts, poetry, music, philosophical thinking etc.

I'm hoping some of you know more than me and can answer my question which I am just about to post above.