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Modern Era

Modern Era. 1910-1945. The Modernist movement was. New and innovative In literature, In Painting In Music And other arts. Caused by. Disillusionment with traditions that seemed to become no longer true or relatable. What influenced it.

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Modern Era

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  1. Modern Era 1910-1945

  2. The Modernist movement was • New and innovative • In literature, • In Painting • In Music • And other arts

  3. Caused by • Disillusionment with traditions that seemed to become no longer true or relatable

  4. What influenced it • Major changes in American life developed in an era filled with turbulence and trials • EXAMPLES?

  5. Historical influences • 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

  6. Social influences • 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

  7. Cultural changes • Development of the automobile • Assembly line • Radio • Movies • Advertising • Air travel • Explosion of popular heroes: Babe Ruth Charles Lindbergh

  8. Result? • bold experimentation • wholesale rejection of traditional themes and styles.

  9. Elements of modernism • 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)

  10. What does it look like? • Modernist literature often conveys fragmentation • abrupt shifts in perspective, voice, and tone • obscure symbols and images rather than clear statements of meaning

  11. Who are the modernists?Novelists, short story writers, poets, playwrights • 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)

  12. Disorderly conduct • 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)

  13. Au Revoir, USA • 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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