James Joyces A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Flann OBrien

James Joyces A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Flann OBriens At Swim- 2-Birds and Modernist WritingThe Twentieth Century found literary works with a considerably different attitude and frame-of-mind than had the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Two hundred years is, of course, a long time to allow mixture within genres, but after the fairly gradual progression of the novel as a form, its change in the hands of modernism happened promptly in comparison. Explaining how texts within the framework of modernist writing are different gather up laying out from what they are different, how, and why. A direct cause of, and coinciding with, literatures abruptly changing face was the Industrial novelty and its subsequent changes upon the world. The largely realist approach to literature had served its course in outfit the scope of the literary audience to classes other than the rulingmostly to the lift middle class with its increasing leisure time and importance as a mar ket. This, hand-in-hand with the new ways of exploring, changing, viewing, and recording the world, signaled that a change was restrict to occur in art, particularly in the literary arts. Victorian writers began to demo their distaste with class systems and their fears of science but overall kept a fairly straight-forwardly linear approach to narrative. Those fears of science and how people interpreted its discoveries, feature with the decreasing necessity of near-journalistic novel-writing because of telegraphs and cameras, the dwindling power of Britain as an empire, and wars with deadlier outcomes than ever sooner stripped away many of the charms of realist writing. The change that had begun in the Victorian epoch led to the more drastic ... ...ames. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York Barnes & Noble Books, 2004. Joyce, James. Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing. Oxford Oxcord UP, 2000. 104-107. Klages, Mary. Structuralism and Saussure. University of Colorado. 6 Sept. 2001. Dept. of English, U. of Colorado. 28 Oct. 2005 . Lye, John. Some Attributes of Modernist Literature. Brock University. 1997. Dept. of English, Brock U. 14 Oct. 2005 . Morris, Pam. Realism. capital of the United Kingdom Routledge, 2003. Obrien, Flann. At Swim-Two-Birds. Normal Dalkey archive P, 2005. Ryf, Robert S., ed. A New Approach to Joyce. Berkeley University of California P, 1962. Schutte, William M., ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Englewood Cliffs Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968. Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel. London Pimlico, 2000.