Modern literature
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""Literature was drawn into the firing line of the times. Novels and plays not only became more outspoken, but sentences became more epigrammatic and thoughts more paradoxical. No one could say how the most innocent of sentences might explode in its last word, any more than one could prophesy what somersault one's favourite belief might take in its latest incarnation. Surprises lurked in the most surprising literary places as though to reflect and keep time with the reshuffling of habits and conventions. And just as modern literature has gained in brightness by the experience, so the adventure has familiarised us with the need of variety in personality and of wider margins of freedom for its expression."--The Eighteen Nineties (1913) by Holbrook Jackson |
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Modern literature may refer to:
- Modernist literature, the literary form of modernism
- History of modern literature, new developments in reading and publishing from the modern period onwards
See also
- Contemporary literature, literature with its setting generally after World War II
- Postmodern literature, post World War II literature characterized by techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator
- Modern African literature
- Modern Arabic literature
- Modern Greek literature, in common Modern Greek, from the late Byzantine era in the 11th century AD
- Modern world literature
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