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UNIT FOURTEEN MODERNISM FITZGERALD Defining modernism is a difficult task. ... A historical definition would say that modernism is the artistic movement in which the artists self-consciousness about questions of form and structure became uppermost. ... In brief, modernism asks us to consider what we normally understand by the center and the margins. - Heath Anthology, Vol. 2, 4th ed., 887-888. Prose: Gertrude Stein (1871—1946) Sherwood Anderson (1876—1941) H. L. Mencken (1880—1956) Sinclair Lewis (1885—1951) Eugene O’Neill (1888—1953) Katherine Anne Porter (1890—1980) Jean Toomer (1894—