<Tab/>The movement known as "Modernism" began in the first decade of the 20th century and was a reaction against all aspects of Victorianism. Literary interest shifted from the external to the internal, to the psychology and motivation of characters and their roots in deeply shared experience, influenced by the theories of Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustaw Jung. Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster among others, explored mind and …showed first 75 words of 741 total…

…showed last 75 words of 741 total…following industrial war strained the political situation. After all the consequences of war - "lost generation" - was created, which stood for those people who experienced all the horror of war in flesh. Among those people were also many writers, who wrote about their experience, and probably due to the true experience, which formed a background for each work, Modernism in literature was quite subjective. Due to this fact, many of the works became biographical.