1. Modernism 1910-1965 Project by: Abby Walker, Caroline Muller, and Matt Henkels

2. Historical Context 0 Technological and Economic progress made some people excited and hopeful for the future while others were skeptical 0 WWI and WWII gave people a negative outlook on life but also were more brave to travel internationally 0 After the WW’s The Great Depression didn’t help with cheering people up 0 Technological advancement made it easy to share ideas which made for more international connection 0 Very unbalanced between traditional industry and new industry

3. Famous Writers of the Time 0 Ernest Hemingway, e.e. cummings, T.S. Elliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, William Faulkner and Langston Hughes. 0 Some popular works by these writers include A Farewell to Arms, The Great Gatsby, The Old Man and the Sea, Ulysses, The Waste Land and The Sound and the Fury.

4. Tenet 1 0 Strong intentional breaks from traditional values and actions. Shift: focus on social/political/religious views -> acting against those previous views “Make it New” (Pound)

5. 0 “And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

6. Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)

7. Tenet 2 0 Experimentation with genre and form Shift: focus on very structural writing -> more free and casual forms of writing Relate to handout?

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9. Henri Matisse, The Open Window (1905)

10. Tenet 3 0 Focus on the sub-conscious, story-telling from the human mind Shift: focus on the character themselves -> focus on the characters inner thoughts “Let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life.” (James) Relate to handout?

11. 0 “Perhaps it was an old flame he was in mourning for from the days beyond recall. She thought she understood. She would try to understand him because men were so different. The old love was waiting, waiting with little white hands stretched out, with blue appealing eyes. Heart of mine! She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in all the world for her for love was the master guide. Nothing else mattered. Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.” ― James Joyce, Ulysses

12. Tenet 4 0 Writers turned to an imagist style of writing. Shift: Regular writing -> writing including lots of mental images for the reader to picture Relate to handout?

13. A Girl By: Ezra Pound The tree has entered my hands, The sap has ascended my arms, The tree has grown in my breast - Downward, The branches grow out of me, like arms. Tree you are, Moss you are, You are violets with wind above them. A child - so high - you are, And all this is folly to the world.

14. Music of the Era 0 What A Wonderful World –Louis Armstrong https://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=E2VCwBzGdPM

15. Tenet 5 0 Championship of inner strength in individual Shift: Simple ordinary people with everything figured out -> Internal Conflict, trying to find oneself

16. 0 “You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him.” -Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

17. Tenet 6 0 Negative view of the world Shift: Life is normal and great -> Pessimistic outlook

18. “ April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.” ― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land