ACR Paragraph. Iryna Nikolaichuk

Literary phenomena of modernism should be revaluated in postmodernism

Argument	Counterargument	Rebuttal
Revaluation of modernistic outlook, art systems, and style features in the categories of postmodernism can give brand new image of literary modernism for research purposes.	There is wide variety of different researches which pay attention to modernistic phenomena, and they explicate so many points of view that there is no need to refer to modernistic categories again.	Modernistic phenomena should be revaluated in the terms of postmodernism in order to clarify terms and concepts referring to literary modernism, provide re-analysis of existing points of view, and systematize all the information in this area of literary science.

In a new literary criticism there is a tendency of earning scientific interest to phenomena of modernism, which are noticeably distanced in time from their todays` researchers, in order to revaluate them according to the categories of postmodern way of thinking, and this direction of literary science seems to be very effective. One reason is that these processes of revaluation of modernistic concepts can provide completely new image of modernistic art system in general and modern literature in particular. Stylistic and ideological inventions of modernism make very bright example of specifically organized system whose influence on next art generations remains to be appreciable. But it should be admitted that attention which was paid by different researchers to modernistic phenomena during the last century was so considerable that now for literary science it makes a real problem to deal with such a variety of different points of view about some concepts of modernism. Modernism as cultural phenomenon was analyzed so deeply in all the possible aspects that it makes no sense for postmodern researchers to refer to such over-analyzed problems instead of drawing their attention to something undiscovered yet. However, existing knowledge about some modernistic concepts needs re-systematization and re-analysis in highly distanced in time from modernistic way of thinking postmodern outlook because modernism as cultural and literal phenomenon still is under non-scientific and non-objective stereotypes which are to be destroyed by new researches. Modernistic categories, therefore, can be clarified in new cultural and ideological space and can still be the points of interest for a literary criticism.
Source: bachelor paper "Narrative technique of 'stream of concsiousness' in British literature of modernism: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf" by Iryna Nikolaichuk; tutor - Rostyslav Semkiv. - Kyiv, 2012. - 100 p.