Modernism attempts to record the changes and shifts in sensibility that occurred in art and literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and brought us beyond the family reality. Although it is believed to have begun with movements such as Imagism and Symbolism, its end is disputed. Frank Kermode uses the term “neomodernism” to suggest its continuity in post-war art. Modernist literature is, in the most critical usage, considered the literature of what Harold Hasenburg calls “the tradition of the new.” The task of such literature is its own self-realization that is both outside and beyond established orders, breaking away from the familiar functions of language and the conventions of form. Many practitioners rejected traditional realism and experimented with both form and content. However, this meant not only a radical remaking of the form, but also, as Frank Kermode says, the tendency to bring it closer to chaos, thus producing a sense of "formal desperation". Indeed, Modernism would appear to be the point at which the idea of ​​radical and innovative arts reaches formal crisis. While some literature has engaged with the ideological implications of this conflict, much writing has retreated into a long-term contextualization of the confrontation as futile and based on degraded values. The stylistic plurality of 20th-century art – a plurality that André Malraux calls the "imaginary 'museum' of stylistic heterodoxy in Voices of the Silence" leaves it open to various interpretations by writers and commentators. However, inclined to the apocalyptic view of history, the most notable characteristic of this era is its pessimism and desperation. The modernist writer occupied a world... half of paper... by Virginia Woolf. The best American comedies. Fifth series, 1958-1963. Ed. Giovanni Gassner. New York: Crown Publishers, 1972. 149-201. Print.Albee, Edward. The history of the zoo. October 12, 2011. PDF. February 2, 2014.De La Fuente, Patricia. Edward Albee: Planned Wilderness, Living Authors Series No. 3rd Ed. Patrizia De La Fuente. Edinburg, Texas: School of Humanities, Pan American University, 1980. Print.Heilpern, John. "Impermissible Evidence: John Osborne's Most Personal Game." October 21, 2011. Web. April 9, 2014. Kolin, C. P. and Davis, J. M. Critical Essays on Edward Albee. Massachusetts: GK Hall, 1986. Print.Osborne, John. Inadmissible evidence. London: Faber Ltd., 1965. Print. Osborne, John. He looks back angrily. Bombay: Oxford UP, 1994. Print.Taylor, John Russell, ed. John Osborne: Look back in anger. London: Macmillan Press, 1968. Print.