Modernism 1900 1940 Definition n n n Departure

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Modernism 1900 -1940

Modernism 1900 -1940

Definition: n n n Departure from Romanticism Concerned with social and historical change Saw

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

Style n n n n Open Form Free Verse Discontinuous narrative Juxtaposition Intertextuality Classical

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

Themes n n n n n Breakdown of social norms and cultural sureties Dislocation

Themes n n n n n 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 20 th century

F. Scott Fitzgerald n n 1896 -1940 Novels and short stories Youth, despair ,

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

T. S. Eliot n n 1888 -1965 Back and forth from USA to England—

T. S. Eliot n n 1888 -1965 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”

Ernest Hemingway: n n n 1899 -1961 At 18 volunteered as Red Cross ambulance

Ernest Hemingway: n n n 1899 -1961 At 18 volunteered as Red Cross ambulance driver in WWI, later severely wounded “Lost Generation”

Other Notable Authors: n n n n James Joyce Ezra Pound Joseph Conrad Virginia

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