Modernism

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among the factors that shaped Modernism were the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by the horror of World War I. Modernism also rejected the certainty of Enlightenment thinking, and many modernists rejected religious belief.

Mrs. Dalloway
To the Lighthouse
Ulysses
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Great Gatsby
Dubliners
The Sound and the Fury
Orlando
As I Lay Dying
The Waves
Heart of Darkness
The Metamorphosis
The Sun Also Rises
The Trial
The Waste Land
Mafarka the Futurist by Filippo Tommaso MarinettiBreakneck by Dan  WangThe Untameables by Filippo Tommaso MarinettiMan of Smoke by Aldo Palazzeschi
Futurism
4 books — 2 voters
Atomic Ranch Midcentury Interiors by Michelle Gringeri-BrownEames by Gloria Koenig20th Century Fashion by Alison A. Nieder101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Matthew FrederickMid-Century Ads by Jim Heimann
Mid Century Modern (nonfiction)
36 books — 3 voters

The Western Canon by Harold BloomNotes Towards The Definition Of Culture by T.S. EliotPhaedrus by PlatoThe intimate philosophy of art by John ArmstrongCulture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold
Roger Scruton's Bibliographies
100 books — 6 voters
Autisterna by Stig LarssonDe två saliga by Ulla IsakssonCalvinols resa genom världen by P.C. JersildSveket by Birgitta TrotzigKonvoj by Thorsten Jonsson
En modern klassiker (Gula serien)
18 books — 2 voters

Karel ende Elegast by UnknownVan den vos Reynaerde by UnknownOeroeg by Hella S. HaasseNooit meer slapen by Willem Frederik HermansLiederen by Hadewijch
Flemish-Dutch Literary Canon
51 books — 5 voters
Steppenwolf by Hermann HesseThe Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria RilkeThe Trial by Franz Kafka
German Modernism
17 books — 2 voters

D.H. Lawrence
Yes, I do believe in something. I believe in being warm-hearted. I believe especially in being warm-hearted in love, in fucking with a warm heart. I believe if men could fuck with warm hearts, and the women take it warm-heartedly, everything would come all right. It's all this cold-hearted fucking that is death and idiocy. ...more
D.H. Lawrence

Peter Watson
One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again be quite so 'easy' as they had been. ...more
Peter Watson, A Terrible Beauty : The People and Ideas That Shaped the Modern Mind - A History

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