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 literature, modern and/or literature:
“Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“One of the necessary qualifications of an efficient business man in these days of industrial literature seems to be the ability to write, in clear and idiomatic English, a 1,000-word story on how efficient he is and how he got that way.... It seems that the entire business world were devoting its working hours to the creation of a school of introspective literature.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)