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1 Modernism

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

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

4 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

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

6 T.S. Eliot 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”

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

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

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