Topic Discussion: Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English.Discuss the different characteristics of modernism writings and realism writings in relation to the works of Mark Twain and the works of Faulkner.
A MODERNISM TAKES THE IRRATIONAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE THEORY OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS AS ITS THEORETICAL BASE. IT REJECTS RATIONALISM, WHICH IS THE THEORETICAL BASE OF REALISM.
B. MODERNISM EXCLUDES FROM ITS MAJOR CONCERN THE EXTERNAL, OBJECTIVE, MATERIAL WORLD, WHICH IS THE ONLY CREATIVE SOURCE OF REALISM.
C. BY ADVOCATING A FREE EXPERIMENTATION ON NEW FORMS AND NEW TECHNIQUES IN LITERARY CREATION, MODERNIST CAST AWAY ALMOST ALL THE TRADITIONAL ELEMENTS IN LITERATURE SUCH AS STORY, PLOT, CHARACTER, HOMOLOGICAL NARRATION.
D. MARK TWAIN PAYS MORE ATTENTION TO THE "LIFE"OF THE AMERICANS. HE IS KNOWN FOR HIS WONDERFUL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PROTAGONIST, HUCK.
E. FAULKNER'S WORKS ARE SET IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH. HE FRAGMENTS THE CHRONOLOGICAL TIME, EMPLOYING THE MODEM STREAM-OF -CONSCIOUSNESS TECHNIQUE.
