The primary value and development reflected in the works of Igor Stravinsky, James Joyce, and Luigi Pirandello is modernism.
While each of these figures occasionally engages with elements of surrealism or unorthodoxy, their collective contributions are most emblematic of modernist themes, including experimentation with form, exploration of new perspectives, and a break from traditional narrative structures, which is characteristic of the modernist movement that arose in the aftermath of World War I. Cubism, while important in visual arts, is less directly tied to the works of these three individuals.