what shaped modernism?
development of modern industrial societies
and?
rapid growth of cities
what has it rejected?
Enlightenment thinking,
which poet is mentioned?
Ezra Pound
how many characteristics  does modernism have?
Two
what are they?
self-consciousness and irony
what are these concerned with?
literary and social traditions,
what did these lead to?
experiments with form,
has it rejected anything?
yes
what?
the ideology of realism
how is historical work used?
by the employment of reprise, incorporation, rewriting,
is there more?
yes
what?
recapitulation, revision and parody.
what is modernism?
a philosophical movement
when did it flourish?
late 19th and early 20th centuries
in which society?
Western society
what was it's touchstone?
Ezra Pound's injunction to "Make it new"
when was this done?
1934
when did artists all have precursors?
19th century