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S/LI/323. 'No poet, nor artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to dead poets and artists', T.S. Eliot. How far is this comment useful in understanding the role of tradition

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2008
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The paper addresses the issue of cultural succession in art and literature arguing that the turn from pre-modernity to modernity broke literary tradition with an explosion of innovation and creative energy. The features of literary and artistic modernism are reviewed with references to Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Arthur Rimbaud, Marinetti's Manifesto of Futurism, etc. The opposite views of T.S. Eliot, Charles Baudelaire, etc. on the role of inheritance in European literature are discussed.

 

KEYWORDS: Modernism, art, literary tradition,

 
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