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Characteristics of modernist
★1Complexity and obscurity: They express the subjective world of the individual writers. As the consciousness and sub consciousness of a particular writer shifts from time to time, usually there is no time sequence in their writings. The old tradition of Time and Space is done away with.
★It includes various trends or schools, such as imagism, expressionism, dadaism, stream of consciousness, and existentialism.
★It means a departure from the conventional criteria or established values of the Victorian age.
humourous attitude.
★ The flow of inner experience/interioh seeks to depict the multitudinous thoughts and
feelings which pass through the- mind.
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1.Modernism: Thomas Stearns Eliot James Joyce Stephen Spender