On Modernism - Klein, Jürgen
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Modernism in British arts, literature and philosophy is manifest as a unique thing around and after 1900. This paradigm shift in all arts and modern science made traditional beliefs, norms, and social patterns obsolete. Forerunners were 19th-century intellectuals, who favoured a new and lively spiritual culture. A new concept of reality not only changed the view of nature (atomic physics) but also the structure and gist of literature. As the belief in the visible world declined, consciousness and symbolism (surface and depth structures) occupied the focus of attention. Literature became an…mehr

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Modernism in British arts, literature and philosophy is manifest as a unique thing
around and after 1900. This paradigm shift in all arts and modern science made
traditional beliefs, norms, and social patterns obsolete. Forerunners were 19th-century
intellectuals, who favoured a new and lively spiritual culture. A new concept of
reality not only changed the view of nature (atomic physics) but also the structure
and gist of literature. As the belief in the visible world declined, consciousness and
symbolism (surface and depth structures) occupied the focus of attention. Literature
became an autonomous field. From artistic subjectivity modernism led the way to
crystallizing creations of complex imaginative structures. Simultaneously, neorealism
in philosophy and relativity in physics substituted a worn-out mechanistic world
picture by a scientific reality reaching far beyond the visible world.
Autorenporträt
Jürgen Klein was the chair of English literature/British cultural and intellectual history at the University of Greifswald (1991-2011). He completed his Ph.D. in Marburg in 1973 and his habilitation in Siegen in 1981. He was an Hon. research fellow at the University of Glasgow, a British Council scholar at the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh and a visiting scholar at Wolfson College, Cambridge. Since 2004 he has been teaching literature at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg.