My concept of Modernism <Tab/>The movement known as "Modernism" began in the first decade of the 20th century and was a reaction against all aspects of Victorianism. Literary interest shifted from the external to the internal, to the psychology and motivation of characters and their roots in deeply shared experience, influenced by the theories of Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustaw Jung. Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster among …showed first 75 words of 452 total…

…showed last 75 words of 452 total…the age - disgust, disillusion, despair. It might point to the need for spiritual revival without predicting that this will necessarily follow. The authors of Modernism sometimes reflect historical situations in the same time using details of contemporary reality. The central problem, both personal and universal, is still the unreality of time, the unreality of human life so governed by time that the present dissolves into memories of the past and desires for the future.