modern literature
Post-Victorian written works
Modern literature refers to writing produced roughly from the late 19th century through the mid-20th century, characterized by experimentation with form, stream of consciousness, fragmented narratives, and rejection of traditional storytelling conventions.
Writers like Joyce, Woolf, and Faulkner exemplify the movement.
The term sometimes extends loosely to mean contemporary or recent literature: I'm taking a class in modern literature.
In academic contexts, modern literature is typically distinguished from postmodern literature, which emerged after World War II.
- booksBound written works
- fictionImagined narrative work
- novelNew and unusual
- book clubGroup discussing shared literature
- poetryMetrical literary composition
fragmentation · decolonization · existentialism · Nobel Prize · banned books · stream of consciousness · inner monologue · Franz Kafka · alienation · magical realism · industrial revolution · Virginia Woolf · multiculturalism · narrative · identity · Woolf · intertextuality · unreliable narrator
- modern fictionnovels, novel, contemporary fiction, debut novels, novellas
- May Fourth EraMay Fourth Movement, Peking University, student protests, anti-traditionalism, cultural criticism
- humanitiesphilosophy, history, philosophy class, novels, humanities
- Literature Studiesclose reading, poetry analysis, character analysis, plot analysis, narrative structure
- Arab literature
- German LiteratureGoethe, Mann, Kafka, Franz Kafka, Rilke
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Foundational Western texts
ancient literature · classical texts · medieval literature · Renaissance literature · ancient texts
modern literaturethe classics
Foundational works of literature
traditional literature · Western canon · timeless classics · classic works · sacred texts
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Enduring written heritage
Victorian literature · genre fiction · popular fiction · folk literature · pulp fiction