James Joyces A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Flann OBrien

James Joyces A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Flann OBriens At Swim-Two-Birds and Modernist WritingThe Twentieth Century found books with a considerably different attitude and frame-of-mind than had the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Two hundred years is, of course, a long time to allow change at bottom genres, but after the fairly gradual progression of the novel as a form, its change in the hands of modernism happened rapidly in comparison. Explaining how texts at heart the framework of modernist writing are different require laying out from what they are different, how, and why. A direct cause of, and coinciding with, literatures perfectly changing face was the Industrial Revolution and its subsequent changes upon the world. The largely realist approach to literature had served its course in widening the scope of the literary audience to classes new(prenominal) than the rulingmostly to the rising middle class with its increasing leisure time and importance as a market. This, hand-in-hand with the new ways of exploring, changing, viewing, and recording the world, signaled that a change was bound to occur in art, particularly in the literary arts. Victorian writers began to express their distaste with class systems and their fears of science but overall unbroken a fairly straight-forwardly linear approach to narrative. Those fears of science and how people interpreted its discoveries, combined with the decreasing necessity of near-journalistic novel-writing because of telegraphs and cameras, the dwindling power of Britain as an empire, and wars with deadlier outcomes than ever ahead stripped away many of the charms of realist writing. The change that had begun in the Victorian age led to the more drastic ... ...ames. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. immature York Barnes & Noble Books, 2004. Joyce, James. Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing. Oxford Oxcord UP, 2000. 104-107. Klages, Mary. Structuralism and Saussur e. University of Colorado. 6 Sept. 2001. Dept. of English, U. of Colorado. 28 Oct. 2005 . Lye, John. Some Attributes of Modernist Literature. Brock University. 1997. Dept. of English, Brock U. 14 Oct. 2005 . Morris, Pam. Realism. London Routledge, 2003. Obrien, Flann. At Swim-Two-Birds. Normal Dalkey Archive P, 2005. Ryf, Robert S., ed. A New Approach to Joyce. Berkeley University of California P, 1962. Schutte, William M., ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Englewood Cliffs Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968. Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel. London Pimlico, 2000.