In narration, traditional realistic writers often reveal their feelings in the characters' every move, and have obvious good or bad judgments on stories. On the other hand, modernist writers oppose this practice and think that writers should narrate with an objective attitude.
Realistic writers are not as rich in expression techniques as modernist writers. From19th century to 20th century, there are more and more symbols, innuendos and metaphors in novels, and the stream of consciousness and other creative means are also important features of modernism. As for realistic writers, I think we have learned those basic techniques of expression since junior high school.
To sum up, it can be seen that modernist novels are more difficult to understand (a little nonsense) than traditional novels. Which is better, or which I like, I think it's just a matter of personal preference.
When was the western modernist modernist literature counted?
When should modernist literature begin? For many years, this has been a controversial issue for many critics at home and abroad.
With the American poet e? Pound's swaggering people think that the literature of five or six hundred years after the Middle Ages can be called modernism. American critic Edmund? Wilson took 1870 as the starting point of modernist literature in his masterpiece "Castle of Selma, Alkell". American critic Cyril? Connolly and others think that 1880 should be the starting point of modernism. Editor of Modern Tradition, expert of Joyce and Ye Zhi? Alba and Cha? Faidel Johnson thinks it is more reasonable to limit the origin of modernism to 1900. However, most experts who study western modernist literature at home and abroad support brandeis, a famous Danish critic, and think that 1890 is the real beginning of modernism. Mr. Ai Kejia, a famous expert on foreign literature research in China, said: "I think it is best to choose a time that is a compromise for them-1890 as the upper limit of modernist literature."
However, we believe that the official start time of western modernist literature should be 1857, which is the year when Baudelaire's first typical symbolic poem "Flowers of Evil" came out. We say this because: 1. The Flower of Evil is the first typical symbolic work, and it is also the first work that completely breaks through the traditional poetry art and finds another way. Its appearance marks the rise of symbolism and the formal appearance of modernist literature. 2. The Flower of Evil is the general source of various modernist literary schools and works that appeared in 100 years later, and its influence and traces can be seen in most modernist works. 3. The Flower of Evil has the basic characteristics of modernist literature, and it is a typical modernist literary work in itself. On the subject matter, modernist literature tries to explore the author's own inner world. The Flower of Evil is the first time to implement a great change in brushwork, which goes deep into the poet's heart and describes the evil of society and human nature as the object of artistic beauty. In terms of artistic skills, modernists widely use hints, symbols, contrasts and images to explore the inner mysteries of characters, which is the main artistic feature of Flowers of Evil. The poet Baudelaire developed the Swedish mystic philosopher Robert Jeffrey Sternberg's "Correspondence Theory", and regarded garden plants as a "symbolic forest" to convey information to people, and thought that external things and people's office world could interact and fit each other. Poets can use vivid images to hint at the subtle world inside. It is this method that emphasizes the expression of material images through hints, contrast, rendering, association and other channels that later became the basic method of symbolic poetry and the whole modernist literature. Fourthly, after Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil, Wei Erlun's The Art of Poetry (1884), Rambo's Drunk Boat (187 1) and Malamei's Afternoon of the Faun appeared in 1890. Before 1898, all these poets died. So 1890 is the end of early symbolism, not the beginning. From the above facts, we can clearly see that the period from 1857 to 1898 is a complete process of the rise and fall of symbolism in the early stage. This 40-year history is the general source of the whole western modernist literature. It is completely reasonable to delimit the upper limit of modernist literary history to 1857.
When is the lower limit of modernist literature?
Many critics at home and abroad believe that western modernist literature ends at around 1970, so its lower limit is naturally set at 1970. We also have different views on this. Because French existentialism basically did not exist before 1980 Sartre's death. After Sartre's death, it still resonates in the United States, and more importantly, it has penetrated into many modernist literature in Europe, America and Latin America. Rob Gerye, the leader of the New Fiction School, is still writing and promoting his views today, also because Claude, another master of the New Fiction School? 1985 Simon won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the "new novel craze" appeared again in France. Latin American modernist literature, such as magical realism, which has absorbed European and American modernist factors, is in the ascendant. Garcia, a representative of magical realism? Marquez also won the Nobel Prize in Literature in the 1980s (1982).
In this way, although modernist literature is not as popular as it was in the 1950s and 1960s, it still has a strong aftermath. And will there be a new climax? I don't know. Its lower limit is still unknown.