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Modernism Definition | What is Modernism? - PoetrySoup

Definition

[n] practices typical of contemporary life or thought
[n] genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
[n] the quality of being current or of the present; "a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village"

Literary movement that occurred from c.1890 until the beginning of World War II and sought to challenge traditional forms.

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contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernity, modernness

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currency, currentness, genre, pattern, practice, up-to-dateness

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