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Meanings of literary modernism in English

Russian
литература модернизма
Portuguese
literatura moderna
Spanish
literatura modernista
Catalan
modernisme anglosaxó

Characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse.

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        литература модернизма
        Usage of literary modernism in English
        1
        The writer, played by Nicole Kidman in the 2002 film The Hours, is a major figure in literary modernism.
        The Irish Times
        2
        James Stephens's 1912 fable The Crock of Gold has an odd place in the firmament of Irish literary modernism.
        The Irish Times
        3
        She was sympathetic to the strain of literary modernism emerging in Britain in the 1920s and 30s.
        The Guardian
        4
        Woolf's role in the making of literary modernism has overshadowed the fact that she was essentially a late Victorian and a product of that world.
        The Irish Times
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