1. A Collective Powerpoint
Modernism ( )

2. Guiding Historical Forces
Education Act of Brought scads of literate people into the marketplace.
World War I ( )
Industrialization/Urbanization
Rejection of Victorian appearances
Scientific Discovery
World War II (1940’s)

3. “You are all a lost generation” - Gertrude Stein
“In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.”
- Ernest Hemingway
“You are all a lost generation”
- Gertrude Stein

5. Guiding Historical Forces
Artists deeply disturbed by WW I and wrote about the absurdity of war, specifically, and generally about the increasingly chaotic and and absurd nature of modern life
Expressed that alienation through radically different experimental literary forms or highly unusual subject matter vs. traditional styles.

6. Qualities of Modernism
Reaction to a century of relative conviction and optimism (Victorianism)
Skeptical irresolution; the rejection of accepted truths
Bleakness of tone
Stoicism
good lies not in external objects, but in the state of the soul itself, in the wisdom and restraint by which a person is delivered from the problems of everyday life.

7. Modernism Cont’d
Traditional stabilities of society, religion and culture weakened
Challenged traditional ways of structuring and making sense of human experience.
Rapid pace of social and technological change;
Mass dislocation of populations by war, empire and economic migration
Mixing in close quarters of cultures and classes in expanding cities

8. Modernism Cont’d Disrupted the old order,
Upended ethical and social codes
Cast into doubt previously stable assumptions about self, community, the world and the divine (see also GOD, the Almighty, a higher power or Michael Jordan).

9. Modernist Features Ambiguity Multiple Truths Fragmented Narration
Stream-of-Conscious Writing
Multiple Point of Views
Feeling that life is meaningless

10. The Expatriates
In the 1920s black American writers, artists, and musicians arrived in Paris and popularized jazz in Parisian nightclubs. They include Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes
After World War II - jazz musicians Charlie Parker and Dexter Gordon; and writers Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Chester Himes.

11. The Expatriates
American literary notables who lived in Paris in the 1920s (the so-called Lost Generation), including Gertrude Stein, Robert McAlmon, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Anais Nin and Henry Miller.

12. T.S. Eliot Born 1888 “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock” 1917
“The Waste Land” 1922
Four Quartets 1943
Died 1965

13. “Humankind Cannot Stand Very Much Reality” T.S. Eliot

14. Ezra Pound
Born 1885
“Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” 1923
Friend to T.S. Eliot

15. James Joyce Born 1882 Published Dubliners 1913
Published A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1915
Published Ulysses 1922
Published Finnegan’s Wake
Died 1941

16. “One by one, they were all becoming shades
“One by one, they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”
James Joyce

17. Virginia Woolf Born1882 Mrs. Dalloway 1925 To the Lighthouse 1927
A Room of One’s Own 1929
The Waves 1931
Died1941

18. If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you can’t tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf

19. Pablo Picasso
Born 1881
Befriended by the patron/writer Gertrude Stein while staying in Paris
His artistic style is known as Cubism