TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jürgen Klein
PY  - 2022
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631878699
TI  - On Modernism
DO  - 10.3726/b19717
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1290243
N2  - Modernism in British arts, literature and philosophy is manifest as a unique thing around and after 1900. This paradigm shift in all arts and modern science made traditional beliefs, norms, and social patterns obsolete. Forerunners were 19th-century intellectuals, who favoured a new and lively spiritual culture. A new concept of reality not only changed the view of nature (atomic physics) but also the structure and gist of literature. As the belief in the visible world declined, consciousness and symbolism (surface and depth structures) occupied the focus of attention. Literature became an autonomous field. From artistic subjectivity modernism led the way to crystallizing creations of complex imaginative structures. Simultaneously, neorealism in philosophy and relativity in physics substituted a worn-out mechanistic world picture by a scientific reality reaching far beyond the visible world.
LA  - English
ER  -