Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of "Modernism" ?

Correct answer: B. A belief in the power of the natural world to communicate transcendent truth

  • A. A radical project of experimentation with literary and artistic form
  • B. A belief in the power of the natural world to communicate transcendent truth
  • C. The use of irony and parody
  • D. Both A and B

Explanation

Modernism is marked by formal experimentation, irony, parody, fragmentation, and distrust of inherited certainties. The belief that nature reliably communicates transcendent truth belongs more closely to Romanticism than to Modernism.

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