THEORICAL ASPECTS IN THE MODERN ENGLISH NOVEL
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https://doi.org/10.58885/aaj.v10i1.39.zaKeywords:
Modernism, novel, English literature, history, society, etc.Abstract
The modern age can be considered as the age when the novel flourished. This represents the most important and probably the most popular medium of writing in modern times. We can say that English fiction is the only literary medium that can compete with film and radio. Modernism can be extensively characterized as the global social development that grabbed hold in the late nineteenth century and arrived at its top just before World War I. In the mid-twentieth century, authors, for example, Henry James and Virginia Woolf, tried different things with shifts in schedule and story perspectives. Social change requested likewise changes in verbal plans and in essential styles of articulation, and that's just the beginning. The advanced novel trials with everything—and it does as such interminably, out of a feeling that structures should maintain changing in control to match innovation, to keep individuals newly and effectively mindful of it, and to find each additional opportunity advancement may make. To match innovation, notwithstanding, was just as important for the point, for the cutting-edge writer likewise needed to oppose it—or even reclaim it. The quintessentially modern novel tends to embody a redemptive hope, reflecting a desire to restore meaning, wholeness, or beauty to the contemporary world. This is probably the most important aspect of literary works; they try to bring forward the issues that people were facing during the time those works were written, and at the same time, they try to criticize those social and historical developments, especially when the human being is downgraded morally. All these aspects form the foundation of our thesis, which we aim to explain and clarify with sufficient argumentation so that readers from any background can understand and appreciate the significance of the modern English novel.
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