modernist fiction
Stream-of-consciousness literature
Modernist fiction is literature from roughly 1900–1940 that broke with traditional narrative conventions.
Writers like Joyce, Woolf, and Faulkner experimented with stream of consciousness, fragmented timelines, and subjective perception.
The movement reflected a world destabilized by war, industrialization, and new theories of mind: Ulysses is the quintessential modernist fiction.
- defamiliarizationMaking common things seem strange
- World War IFirst global military conflict
- alienationState of being isolated
- unreliable narratorStoryteller whose credibility wavers
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
Virginia Woolf · Gertrude Stein · Franz Kafka · James Joyce · William Faulkner · industrial revolution · Marcel Proust · inner life · subjective experience · interior monologue · disillusionment · epiphany · non-linear narrative · in medias res · fragmentation · identity crisis · magical realism · psychoanalysis
modernist fictionVictorian fiction
British 1837-1901 literature
realist fiction · genre fiction · postmodern fiction · popular fiction · social realism
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