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1910-1945
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New and innovative In literature, In Painting In Music And other arts
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Disillusionment with traditions that seemed to become no longer true or relatable
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Major changes in American life developed in an era filled with turbulence and trials EXAMPLES?
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Onset of WWI (called the Great War or War to end all wars) “turning point in American life, marking a loss of innocence and a strong disillusionment with tradition” Prohibition Nineteenth Amendment Great Migration Immigration Act Great Depression
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Fire at Triangle Shirtwaist company Sinking of the Titanic Influenza epidemic killed about 500,000 people in the US; 30 million worldwide Fixing of the World Series in 1919
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Development of the automobile Assembly line Radio Movies Advertising Air travel Explosion of popular heroes: Babe Ruth Charles Lindbergh
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bold experimentation wholesale rejection of traditional themes and styles.
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Emphasis on bold experimentation in style and form: reflected the separations of society Rejection of traditional themes/subjects Sense of disillusionment and loss of faith in American Dream Rejection of the ideal of a hero as infallible in favor of a hero who is flaws and disillusioned but shows grace under pressure Interest in the workings of the mind; expressed through new ways of telling story (stream of consciousness)
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Modernist literature often conveys fragmentation abrupt shifts in perspective, voice, and tone obscure symbols and images rather than clear statements of meaning
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F Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway John Steinbeck T. S. Eliot (poet) Sherwood Anderson, Claude McKay (poet) Katherine Anne Porter Robert Frost (poet) Eugene O’Neill (playwright)
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Order, sequence, and unity did not seem to the modernists to convey reality. Instead, they emphasized discontinuity, discordance, and fragmentation as more representative of the modern experience. Faced with making sense of fragments and intuiting connections left unstated, the reader of a modernist work is often said to participate in the creative work of making the poem or story, him or herself Therefore it was not widely popular, called for more work by the reader (Norton Anthology of American Literature)
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Many modernists left the US to write abroad Particularly settled in France Called ex-patriots (ex-pats) Continued to write about American themes Believed European climate was more conducive to their writing
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