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- two-Birds and Modernist WritingThe Twentieth Century found books 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 deviate within genres, but after the fairly gradual progression of the wise as a form, its change in the hands of modernism happened cursorily in comparison. Explaining how texts within the framework of modernist writing are different imply laying out from what they are different, how, and why. A direct cause of, and coexist 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 increase the scope of the literary audience to classes other than the rulingmostly to the locomote middle class with its increasing leisure time and importance as a market. Th is, hand-in-hand with the new ways of exploring, changing, viewing, and recording the world, signaled that a change was specify to occur in art, particularly in the literary arts. Victorian writers began to transmit 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, have 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 in advance stripped away many of the charms of realist writing. The change that had begun in the Victorian geezerhood 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. Universit y 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 roll 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.