The Topic of American Modernismen
At the end of the year 2017, we in our English class, looked into the genre of modernismen. Modernismen has its origins in the very end and early start of the 19th and 20th centuries, where it at the time was unlike any other literary period seen before, and it changed literature forever. In modernised there is focus on how the there is no concrete truth and that desires rule. We read some text from Ernest Hemingway, who is a key figure in american modernismen which we mainly focused on. Some of these text were " Hills Like White Elephants " and " Cat in the Rain ". A writing style that prevailed under modernismen were the "iceberg principle" where not much is shown but much is told, what is also something that these stories are prime examples of. I found that the short stories that followed this "Iceberg Principle" to be very interesting. The fact that only the minimal is show, that we as reader must piece the story together from the scarc...