2: Definitions of Modernism, various online sources.

2: Definitions of Modernism, various online sources.

Yankev Glatshteyn is considered to be a modernist writer. There are multiple definitions of literary modernism.

Suggested Activity: Have students read the following three definitions of modernism. Ask them: What do the definitions agree upon? Where do they disagree? What parts of these definitions do you find reflected in Glatshteyn’s poem?

Sources: Rebecca Beasley, “Modernism” on http://writersinspire.org/content/modernism. Accessed on June 18, 2020. Licensed as Creative Commons BY-NC-SA (2.0 UK).

José Manuel Campos Noguera, “Characteristics of Modernism," from "A Guide to Modernism in Literature,” on https://englishpost.org/literary-movements-modernism/. Accessed on June 18, 2020.

Brenna Dugan, “What is Modernism,” on https://www.utoledo.edu/library/canaday/guidepages/Modernism2.html. Accessed on June 18, 2020.