Literary modernism of Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and others between 1900 and 1910. Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio" (1919) is known as an early work of modernism for its plain-spoken prose style and emphasis on psychological insight into characters. James Joyce was a major modernist writer whose strategies employed in his novel "Ulysses" (1922) for depicting the events during a twenty-four-hour period in the life of his protagonist, Leopold Bloom, have come to epitomize modernism's approach to fiction. The poet T.S. Eliot described these qualities in 1923, noting that Joyce's technique is "a way of controlling, of ordering, of giving a
The Dancers at the End of Time involved a scene where the main character, Mavis Ming, was whipped into submission by Bloom. This was later rewritten by the author. The novel has also been published under the title "A Messiah at the End of Time". "Elric at the End of Time" is one of two Elric short stories included in the eponymous collection, "Elric at the End of Time". Its characters include Elric, Una Persson, and Lord Jagged. Jherek Carnelian, son of the Iron Orchid and an unknown father (later revealed to be Lord Jagged) is the protagonist of the novels "An Alien Heat", "The Hollow Lands"