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Modernism, in literature, is the period when writers stopped assuming the inherited forms of the 19th century could carry what they wanted to say. Key sections include: Literary Modernism.; Opening What modernism meant.; Chapter I Before modernism.; Chapter II Pound.; Chapter III Eliot.; Chapter IV H.D. and Imagism.; Chapter V Wallace Stevens.; Chapter VI The American counter.; Chapter VII Gertrude Stein.; Chapter VIII Joyce..
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