Modernity (meaning and context)

Authors

  • Dr. Muhammad Imran Azfar Assistant Professor
  • Hassan Raza Lecturer

Keywords:

Modernism, Classics, Marxism, Imagism, Contemporary Politics, Cultural Discourse, Industrialization, Global Village.

Abstract

Modernism is socio-political and literary theory, which belongs to literature, art, philosophy and other social sciences. Modernism is a global movement in social and cultural discourse, which came into discussion in the last decades of 19th and early decades of 20th century. This socio political, economical and cultural debate sought a new alignment by the help of experience and values of modern era and modern industrial life. This particular sicio-literary debate create impact upon literature, visual arts, music, photography, archeology and other thoughts or actions regarding new man’s life, which particularly make it new by abstraction, experiment, modern thinking, philosophy, contemporary politics, growing architecture and social issues via subjective experimental discourses. It centred around thought process, belief and sence of feelings according to contemporary alinetion from prevailing optimism, morality, actions or conversations. Modernism has a strong desire and belief to change the situation which is going on today and wish to change the situation, how human being interact and create legacy together in social life. In this article we try to define the meaning and impact procedures of modernism in our society and its original story from Western literary and cultural diversity. By using qualitative research methodology, we do possible effort to prove the sence of making something new and the difference between modern, classics and romantic.                                                

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Published

2025-06-15