One might be interested in modernist writing and another in science fiction, for example.
In the best examples of modernist writing, these techniques are used not for their own sake but to open up questions in the mind of the reader.
Juxtaposition, irony, comparisons, and satire are important elements found in modernist writing.
For the first-time reader, modernist writing can seem frustrating to understand because of the use of a fragmented style and a lack of conciseness.
They have applauded the wave of "modernist writing" in China since 1983 - writing which in its emphasis on formal experimentation tended to evade contemporary social reality.
In 1926 Thomas Hardy remarked forlornly of contemporary modernist writing: 'They've changed everything now.
The language of 'modernist' writing is, typically, difficult and challenging; it makes considerable demands on the reader, and even greater demands on the critic.
We discuss the effects of the free love and suffrage movements on turn-of-the-century and early modernist writing.
Towards the end of his life, he also started experimenting with more modernist writing.
During this period it has passed through some major phases including the early romantic period, progressive writings, modernist writings, and the current phase.