# Literary Modernism

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Category: Literature
Slides: 26
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:18:34.525Z
Tags: literature, literary, modernism

## Summary

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..

## Slide Outline

1. Literary Modernism.
2. Opening What modernism meant.
3. Chapter I Before modernism.
4. Chapter II Pound.
5. Chapter III Eliot.
6. Chapter IV H.D. and Imagism.
7. Chapter V Wallace Stevens.
8. Chapter VI The American counter.
9. Chapter VII Gertrude Stein.
10. Chapter VIII Joyce.
11. Chapter IX Woolf.
12. Chapter X Faulkner.
13. Chapter XI British modernist short prose.
14. Chapter XII Mann, Musil, Pessoa, Svevo.
15. Chapter XIII Kafka.
16. Chapter XIV Russian modernism.
17. Chapter XV Futurism, Dada, Surrealism.
18. Chapter XVI The Harlem Renaissance.
19. Chapter XVII The closing.
20. Chapter XVIII The criticism.
21. Chapter XIX Twenty-five modernist works.
22. Chapter XX An order.
23. Chapter XXI Watch & read.
24. Chapter XXII What modernism became.
25. Chapter XXIII Why read it.
26. The end of the deck.

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