Exploring Literary Precursors to Modernism

Who was Freud's collaborator in his first major work?

According to Freud, what was subjective reality based on?

Who was a major influence on logical positivism and a forerunner of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity?

Which philosopher argued that the mind begins as a blank slate?

Who combined Freud's description of subjective states with the idea of the collective unconscious?

Who suggested that human impulses toward breaking social norms were derived from the essential nature of the human animal?

Who emphasized the difference between scientific clock time and the direct, subjective, human experience of time?

Who is considered an important literary precursor of modernism?

Which poet founded the Imagist movement, giving modernism its early start in the 20th century?

Which writer's work, such as 'The Waste Land', reflected a prevailing sense of disillusionment after World War I?

Which literary movement is characterized by a poetry that favored precision of imagery, brevity, and free verse?

Which writer's later plays, including 'To Damascus' and 'A Dream Play', are considered important in early modernist literature?

Which innovative literary technique was developed by modernist writers to reflect the need for greater psychological realism?

What year is roughly considered as the beginning of the modernist literary movement?

Which literary movement is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing in both poetry and prose fiction writing?

What was Ezra Pound's maxim that exemplified the experimentation with literary form and expression in modernist literature?

What were the prevailing assumptions about society that were reassessed due to the horrors of the First World War?

Which two individuals influenced early Modernist literature?

According to Mary Ann Gillies, what is the centrality of modernist literary themes?

What did Ernst Mach argue about the mind in his book 'The Science of Mechanics'?

In what time period did literary modernism originate?

Which work is considered an early modernist novel for its plain-spoken prose style and psychological insight into characters?

Which artist is known for his atonal ending in the Second String Quartet and is considered an early modernist landmark?

Which group was founded in Munich in 1911 and is associated with Expressionist paintings?

Which artist is known for his first abstract painting and is associated with the founding of the Blue Rider group?

Which literary work is described as a major modernist novel that depicts the events during a twenty-four-hour period in the life of the protagonist?

Which poet's modernist poem, despite the absence of a linear narrative, conveys the theme of 'the decay and fragmentation of Western Culture'?

Which Italian poet breaks with the tradition of Giosuè Carducci, Giovanni Pascoli, and Gabriele D'Annunzio in terms of style, language, and tone?

Which Italian poet uses the concept of epiphany to reconstruct meaning in their work?

Which Italian poet incorporates Freudian concepts of psychoanalysis in their poetry?