THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY AND MODERN LIFE ON 20TH- CENTURY LITERATURE
Keywords:
Keywords: technological development, modern lifestyle, twentieth-century fiction, industrial progress, early digital age, narrative experimentation, social change, media influence, self-identity, literary innovation.Abstract
Abstract
This research explores how technological progress and the fast-paced lifestyle
of the modern era shaped the evolution of literature in the 20th century. As innovations
in science, industry, communication, and media transformed human existence, authors
reacted by reshaping traditional literary forms and themes. The study discusses how
advancements such as mechanization, urban expansion, global communication
systems, and the beginnings of digital technology influenced new ways of depicting
time, space, identity, and human consciousness in literary works. It also examines how
writers adopted unconventional narrative structures, including fragmented storytelling,
psychological interiority, experimental techniques, and dystopian imagery, to capture
the complexity of an increasingly modernized society. The analysis focuses on major
literary figures who addressed issues of isolation, the weakening of individual identity,
the accelerated rhythm of life, and the conflict between technological growth and
human values. Ultimately, the research argues that 20th-century literature served both
as an artistic reaction to technological change and as a medium for critically
interpreting the dramatic shifts of the modern world.
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