【正确答案】正确答案：Modernism literature was characterized chiefly by a rejection of 19th-century traditions and of their consensus between author and reader, the conventions of realism were abandoned by modernism writers. Modernist writers tended to see themselves as an avant-garde disengaged from bourgeois values, and disturbed their readers by adopting complex and difficult new forms and styles. In fiction, the accepted continuity of chronological development was upset by Joseph Cornard, William Faulkner, while James Joyce and Virginia Woolf attempted new ways of tracing the flow of the character"s thoughts in their stream-of-consciousness styles. In poetry, Ezra Pound and Eliot replaced the logical exposition of thoughts with collages of fragmentary images and complex allusions. Modernist writing is predominantly cosmopolitan, and often expresses a sense of urban cultural dislocation, along with an awareness of new juxtaposition and multiple points of view challenge the reader to reestablish a coherence of meaning from fragmentary forms, which we can see from Joyce"s Ulysses and Eliot"s The Waste Land.