modernist writer
Stream-of-consciousness practitioner
A modernist writer is an author associated with the early-to-mid 20th century literary movement that broke from traditional forms and conventions.
Modernist writers experimented with stream of consciousness, fragmented narratives, and subjective perspectives—think Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Faulkner.
The term now sometimes describes any writer with similar experimental tendencies: She writes like a modernist writer, all interior monologue and fractured timelines.
- alienationState of being isolated
- stream of consciousnessNarrative mimicking uninterrupted thought
- fragmentationBreaking into smaller pieces
- unreliable narratorStoryteller whose credibility wavers
- narrative voiceWho speaks the story
Virginia Woolf · Mrs Dalloway · Samuel Beckett · Gertrude Stein · James Joyce · William Faulkner · existentialism · T.S. Eliot · interior monologue · inner life · Franz Kafka · disillusionment · Ezra Pound · individualism · imagism · free verse · psychoanalysis · Marcel Proust
modernist writerVictorian novelist
19th-century British fiction writer
Victorian writer · Charles Dickens · Sir Walter Scott · George Eliot · Victorian poet
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