Modernist Exceptions

Abstract

Modernism’s seminal “Make it New” has long acclaimed exceptionalism as part of the artistic movement’s reaction(s) to previous modes of thinking, writing and producing art. Indeed, modernism’s wish to renew literature, to experiment with language and to construct itself against previous modes of thinking and writing has enabled writers and artists to rethink the artistic, social and cultural codes or rules of the beginning of the 20th century, either openly, or in a more covert fashion. The g...