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And if you were a Modernist, well, all rules were meant to be broken. The Modernists definitely lived by Bender's \"being bad feels pretty good\" ethos.  \nOutside the Lines  \nModernists: coloring outside the lines (because lines were meant tobe crossed) from 1900-1930. Approximately. Because Modernists don't care about your arbitrary year markers. Anything you tell them to do, they won't. Whatever people say they are, that's what they're not.  \nThe Modernists were some extremely edgy lads and ladies, who made a point of offending as many sensibilities as they could in order to explore new territory in their work. It isn't surprising that one important journal that published these writers' works was called Blast. Three, two, one, Blast off: these guys meant to clear out the old as quickly and violently as possible to make way for new ways of seeing and being.  \nOut With the Old and in With the New  \n2  \nAnd what was this \"old\" that needed to be eradicated? Well, all the old forms of art, from novelistic and poetic structures to characterization and imagery. They were fusty old relics of a world that was definitely bygone.  \nHorses? Who cares about horses? The Modernists had motorcars and planes. Victorian morals and uptight society? Psssssh. That was old hat. Innocence? Ha! What room was there for innocence in a world first transformed by modernity and then decimated by WWI?  \nWorld War I brought Americans to Europe, exposing them to ideas and influences that probably seemed pearl-clutchingly shocking to their sheltered sensibilities and, yeah, shattering their faith inhumanity with the horrors of war.  \nStrategies  \nSo how do you thumb your nose at history when you're a young and brilliant Modernist? Well, for starters, you take a cue from that slick new science, psychology, and start writing books that zoom in (sometimes way too close for comfort) on characters' points of view. If you're Virginia Woolf, Henry James, or James Joyce, the idea of\"personal space\" doesn't apply to your characters' psyches. You're getting down n' dirty in those character brainpans.  \nThen you slap the term \"stream of consciousness\" on this wacky new work and let the fanboys drool and the critics critique (because the modernists knew that the haters were going to hate, hate, hate) and go on doing your devil-may-care Modernist thing.  \nAnd you don't stop at implementing a brand spankin' new way of expressing characters' innermost thoughts. If you're a Modernist you throw away linear stories in favor of those that jump around in time and space like demented bunnies. You pooh-pooh rhyme and meter in exchange for free verse. You put violence and sexytimes front and center (where they belong IOHO) . You confuse and frighten your reader and you don't even apologize.  \nIn short, the Modernists thought freedom was just another word for nothing left to lose…and that the world had lost its innocence (and  \n3  \neverything else) post-WWI. They turned the literary scene upside down and had an awesome time doing it.  \nAnd, unlike some literary schools that may seem a little ho-hum tous in the 21st century—did someone say Romanticism? Oh, wait, we've already forgotten—the Modernists stay awesome. Bewildering, sure. But also no holds barred, go-for-the-jugular, blow your mind awesome.  \nRebellious ...  \nModernists were the original bad boys of art, whose self-appointed task it was to break—no, scratch that: blow to smithereens—everything that came before them. What were they rebelling against?  \nEverything.  \nThese guys were hardly rebels without a cause, though. Oh, they had causes. They had manifestos. They had ideals. They had vision, and they weren't going to let any stodgy old Victorian-holdover beardos stop them. And they were crazy prolific.  \nBut that didn't mean that the Mod","cbCainrbn7lB0VWT","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainrbn7lB0VWT","pdf",356527,54,"English","# MODERNISM\n## Outside the Lines\n## Out With the Old and in With the New\n## Strategies\n## Rebellious ...\n## ...And Kinda Like Us","[{\"question\":\"What core idea drove the Modernists to break rules in art?\",\"answer\":\"They believed rules were made to be broken and saw freedom as the chance to explore new ways of seeing and being. Their work deliberately offended sensibilities to clear space for new territory.\"},{\"question\":\"What counted as the “old” Modernists wanted to eradicate?\",\"answer\":\"They targeted established forms of art, including conventional novelistic and poetic structures, characterization styles, and traditional imagery. 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