What happens to those resources that the great modernist writers endowed language with so powerfully earlier in the century?

本世纪早期,杰出的现代主义作家们如此给力,地赋予语言一些资源？

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The text into which any early modern seventeenth-century writer would jot his or her thoughts into, his reading notes, was always called a commonplace book.

他的阅读笔记,那是许多早期的十七世纪现代作家都会深深思考的笔记，它常常被称为一本普通的书。

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Now by the same token, James Joyce other Modernists like James Joyce are also contributing to this idea of the independent unity of the work of art.

同样的，一些现代主义作家如,也对艺术作品独立的一致性,这一观点作出了贡献。

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In the second half of the twentieth century and up now into the twenty-first century, writers were thinking very hard about what to do stylistically with all the innovations that come in that powerful period known as modernism.

自二十世纪下半叶,直至现今二十一世纪,作家都在努力思考在现代主义影响,深远的这个时期里该怎样进行文体上的创新。

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