MODERN NOVEL
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Modern
novel Competes with film & radio.
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Poetry
lost its place in Modern Society.
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Poetry
provides compression of meanings though metaphysical expression.
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Many
divorces & domestic disturbances were mentioned.
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Author
& audience should consider same meaning.
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It
was an Age of disintegration & interrogation.
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Old
values discarded & replaced by new values.
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Man
was caught between two worlds, one dying, the other seeking to be born.
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Society
is not homogenous.
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It
was Difficult to choose between communism & capitalism.
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Lock
of Belief in God & Scepticism was prevailing
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There
was Confidence in science & fear of atomic bomb.
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Every
belief was riddled with doubt.
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There
was the Absence of any common values.
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Compression
of meaning not possible in poetry.
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In
prose ambiguity can be clarified.
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There
was Analytical scientific approach.
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There
was Development of psychology.
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Realism
/ Impressionism / Symbolism were introduced.
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Technique
of Stream of consciousness was introduced.
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Self
consciousness.
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Boldness
and Sexual frankness.
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There
was the Disintegration of society.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
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Stream
of consciousness.
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Use
of symbols.
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Study
of inside, inner drama of mind.
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Poetic
temperament.
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Life
and process of living is important.
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Usual,
mental & emotional impressions.
JAMES JOYCE
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Free
association, stream of consciousness.
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Use
of symbols being an Artist.
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Born
linguist considers language machinery.
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Speech
occupies the dominant association area.
JOSEPH CONRAD
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Impressionistic
technique
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Unusual
insight.
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Third
person as if in conversation.
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Characters
frustrated by their own passions & impulses.
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Expose
social abuses & social prejudices.
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Intellectual
sympathy, single – heartedness.
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Realism.
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