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Modernism 1900-1940

Definition: Departure from Romanticism Concerned with social and historical change Saw the emerging city/urbanscape as central part of society

Style Open Form Free Verse Discontinuous narrative Juxtaposition Intertextuality Classical allusions Borrowings from other cultures and languages Unconventional use of metaphor

Themes Breakdown of social norms and cultural sureties Dislocation of meaning and sense from its normal context Valorization of the despairing individual in the face of an unmanageable future Alienation/dysfunction Disillusionment Rejection of history and the substitution of a mythical past, borrowed without chronology Product of the metropolis, of cities and urbanscapes Stream of consciousness Overwhelming technological changes of the 20th century

F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896-1940 Novels and short stories Youth, despair , and age “Lost Generation”

T.S. Eliot 1888-1965 Back and forth from USA to England—modern and traditional, popular and elite, secular and religious, democracy and monarchy Poetry is both colloquial and learned “Lost Generation”

Ernest Hemingway: 1899-1961 At 18 volunteered as Red Cross ambulance driver in WWI, later severely wounded “Lost Generation”

Other Notable Authors: James Joyce Ezra Pound Joseph Conrad Virginia Woolf W.B. Yeats William Faulkner Robert Frost