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Explore the Modernist period from the late 19th century to the 1930s/1940s, marked by a sense of alienation, loss, and despair in response to the disruptive forces of industrialization and technology. Discover how iconic figures like Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, and Eliot captured the essence of a fragmented, disillusioned human experience through radical experimentation with form and style.
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Modernism Post WWI 1910-1940’s
Modernism • Reflects a sense of cultural crisis • Knowledge is not absolute • Marx, Freud and Darwin had started it with the naturalists • Freud’s psycho-analytic theories • Loss of a sense of tradition • Life is fragmented, not continuous • Increasing dominance of technology
Modernist Period • Late 19th century- 1930’s/1940’s • Historians say that modernism is the result of the general transformation of society caused by industrialization and technology during the 19th century.
Modernism • Focuses on how modern life is ruining the individual spirit • Disillusionment- the impoverished human soul
Modernism • Sense of alienation, loss and despair • Portrays elements of society that serve to separate and isolate people • The “evils” and effects of modern life
Modernism • Radical experiment with form and style • Unconventional structures • Strange capitalization and lack of punctuation • Stream of consciousness • e.e.cummings and Gertrude Stein exemplified this experimentation
Novelists: F. Scott Fitzgerald John Steinbeck William Faulkner Ernest Hemingway Playwrights: Tennessee Williams Arthur Miller Eugene O’Neill Poets: T.S. Eliot William Carlos Williams Ezra Pound John Dos Passos e.e. cummings Edna St. Vincent Millay Prominent American Modernists
