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  2. Modernity - Wikipedia

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    The Latin adjective was adopted in Middle French, as moderne, by the 15th century, and hence, in the early Tudor period, into Early Modern English. The early modern word meant "now existing", or "pertaining to the present times", not necessarily with a positive connotation. English author and playwright William Shakespeare used the term modern ...

  3. Modern era - Wikipedia

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    The modern era or the modern period is considered the current historical period of human history. It was originally applied to the history of Europe and Western history for events that came after the Middle Ages , often from around the year 1500, like the Reformation in Germany giving rise to Protestantism .

  4. Literary modernism - Wikipedia

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    For example, the use of stream-of-consciousness or interior monologue reflects the need for greater psychological realism. It is debatable when the modernist literary movement began, though some have chosen 1910 as roughly marking the beginning and quote novelist Virginia Woolf , who declared that human nature underwent a fundamental change "on ...

  5. Modernism - Wikipedia

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    Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907). This Proto-Cubist work is considered a seminal influence on subsequent trends in modernist painting.. Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience. [1]

  6. Garden-path sentence - Wikipedia

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    This example turns on the two meanings of German modern: the adjective meaning English 'modern', and the verb meaning 'to rot'. [8] The theme of the "picture exhibition" in the first clause lends itself to interpreting modern as an adjective meaning 'contemporary', until the last two words of the sentence:

  7. American modernism - Wikipedia

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    Others see modernist art, for example in blues and jazz music, as a medium for emotions and moods, and many works dealt with contemporary issues, like feminism and city life. Some artists and theoreticians even added a political dimension to American modernism. American modernist design and architecture enabled people to lead a modern life.

  8. The 20 best gifts to give someone you don't know very well - AOL

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    My mom, for example, always purchases Bath & Body Works items and large sized Yankee Candles in bulk and keeps them in a box in her closet, ready to give out just in case she needs spare gifts to ...

  9. Early modern literature - Wikipedia

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    A large part of the reason for this was that much prose was expected to adhere to the rules of sec ' (سجع, also transliterated as seci), or rhymed prose, [1] a type of writing descended from the Arabic saj' and which prescribed that between each adjective and noun in a sentence, there must be a rhyme.