A Modernist Essay
A Modernist Essay
Typically, the modernist essay is a critical essay, but it also stands as a work of art/literature. Write an essay on a work of art of your own choosing (i.e., graphic art, music, film or
literature; it may be a work you know well, but a work that you’re discovering for the first time should serve just as well). Essay should incorporate modernist experiments in form in such a way as
to make this essay itself a work of art. Characteristic modernist innovations include the introduction of poetic practices into prose, such as the juxtaposition of fragments (paratactic
apposition), stream of consciousness, and inventive use of allusion and quotation. Choose one or two that work most effectively as ways to express your ideas