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1 Modernism and its Difficulties
Reach Cambridge Explorer Program, 2017 Genevieve Zimantas

2 The times they are a changin’

3 Contexts (Some kind of big events…)
Innovations in science Women’s suffrage ‘The War to End All Wars’ Communism (Karl Marx) Psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud)

4 Age of Innovation

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6 1922 James Joyce, Ulysses Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land

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8 The Age of Manifestos and Movements
Imagism Symbolism Vorticism Expressionism Futurism Surrealism

9 Just a few modernist writers…

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