1914-1939.  The period between the two World Wars was called a “traumatic coming of age.”  America had moved from an farming nation to an urban nation.

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 The period between the two World Wars was called a “traumatic coming of age.”  America had moved from an farming nation to an urban nation.  The lives of these Americans were radically different from those of their parents.

 Nontraditional sentence structure and forms.  Challenged tradition.  Moved beyond Realism.  An overarching theme of Modernism was “emancipation.”

 Influenced by Walt Whitman’s free verse  Emily Dickinson’s compression  British and American Romantic poets

 T. S. Eliot  William Carlos Williams  E. E. Cummings  Robert Frost  Ernest Hemingway  F. Scott Fitzgerald  William Faulkner  John Steinbeck

 Juxtaposition  Intertextuality  Open form  Free verse  Classical allusions  Borrowing from cultures and other languages

 Two images that are otherwise not commonly brought together appear side by side or structurally close together, thereby forcing the reader to stop and reconsider the meaning of the text through the contrasting images, ideas, motifs, etc.  For example, “He was slouched alertly” is a juxtaposition.

 Intertextuality is a relationship between two or more texts that quote from one another, allude to one another, or otherwise connect.

 Breakdown of social and cultural norms  Alienation of the individual  Individual as hero despite uncontrollable future  Product ofurbanscapes (cities)

 Women were given the right to vote in  Hemlines were raised.  Margaret Sanger introduced the idea of birth control.  Karl Marx’s ideas flourish; the Bolshevik Revolution overthrows Russia’s czarist government and establishes the Soviet Union.

 Sense of alienation in literature:  The character belongs to a “lost generation.”  The character suffers from a separation of thought from feeling.  The character has “a Dream deferred.”

 Characters are heroic in the face of a future they can’t control.  Demonstrates the uncertainty felt by individuals living in this era.  Examples include Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby

 Life in the city differs from life on the farm.  Writers began to explore city life.  Conflicts begin to center on society.