modernist novels
Stream-of-consciousness literature
Modernist novels are literary fiction from roughly 1900 to 1950 that broke with Victorian conventions of linear plot and omniscient narration.
Writers like Joyce, Woolf, and Faulkner experimented with stream of consciousness, fragmented timelines, and subjective interiority: Ulysses is the quintessential modernist novel.
The movement emphasized psychological depth over straightforward storytelling.
- UlyssesGreek hero, Latinized
- World War IFirst global military conflict
- unreliable narratorStoryteller whose credibility wavers
- alienationState of being isolated
- memory distortionInaccurate recall of events
Virginia Woolf · Mrs Dalloway · James Joyce · Franz Kafka · William Faulkner · time perception · existentialism · Samuel Beckett · fragmentation · Marcel Proust · psychological depth · inner world · identity crisis · interior monologue · T.S. Eliot · disillusionment · non-linear narrative · urbanization
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Nineteenth-century British literary works
social realism · genre fiction · popular fiction · pulp novels · pulp fiction
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Formulaic work for profit
airport novels · escapist fiction · traditional storytelling
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