Modern literature may refer to
- Modernist literature, the literary form of modernism
- History of modern literature, new developments in reading and publishing from the modern period onwards
Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or literature:
“Insurance. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
“It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)