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[M Choakumchild]

Are we talking about modernism & novels? Assume we are. Between 1900 and
1930 revolutionary developments took place in the novel. These developments
involved new subject matter, style, technique, and led ultimately to a
radical rethinking of the relationship between fiction and reality. This era
in the history of the novel, like the corresponding periods in the history
of drama, poetry, and other arts, is now widely known as Modernism.

see Bloomsbury Guide or any other Handbook to Literature ( I like Harmon &
Holmon)

Are we talking about modernism & the American novel? Assume we are. American
literature is essentially a modern, recent and international literature.

see _From Puritanism T Postmodernism: A History of American Literature_
Ruland & Bradbury


Are we talking modernist & postmodernist (empahisis on the "ist" ending)?
and modernism & postmodernism (empahisis on the "ism" ending)?

see _Postmodernist Fiction_, McHale, Brian

Welcome to the Circumlocution Office. Now, I would like to buy a fish
license for my pet parrot Pavlov who sells arguments at Humpty's dump a
dollar a dozen.

Post Urn Mod Horn Mute,

Mr. M'Choakumchild

>  "Am I the only writer who does not know what postmodernism even
> means?"---Philip Roth, NPR interview a few years ago....
>
> I think, but ask Dave, Ian or Alice, that modernism in literature began,
> say, 1922?................I still don't know what postmodernism is,
> but I keep struggling...
>
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