Define modernism in English literature. Name two major modernistic British writers and list one major work by each.

Define modernism in English literature. Name two major modernistic British writers and list one major work by each.

A. Modernism rose out of skepticism and disillusion of capitalism.
B.The French symbolism appearing in the late 19th century, heralded modemism. After WWI, all kinds of literary trends of modernism appeared: expreasionismn, surrealism. futurism, etc.
C.Modernism makes the irrational philosophy and the theory psycho-analysis as its theoretical base.
D.Modernism is, in many aspects, a reaction against realism.
E.Jame Joyce: Ulysses; T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land.