modernism

  • Why I love Virginia Woolf

    It’s not because of the plot, nor is it the characters.  It’s the language.  (If you like action-driven page turners, you probably won’t like Woolf.)  Virginia Woolf, along with James Joyce, was one of the pioneers of early Modernism and stream-of-consciousness writing style.  When I first read her novels in college, I fell in love… Continue reading

  • Big Change: Modernism

    At some point in the recent history of western civilization, a big cultural change occurred-in Europe, but especially in the United States. This change was so complicated that scholars really can’t grasp it completely. There was the nineteenth century, and then there was the twentieth-so very different from each other, in art, in music, in… Continue reading