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The Modern Age (1901-1945) - Coggle Diagram
The Modern Age (1901-1945)
The Modernist Revolution
1905 Einstein "Theory of Relativity"
Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb
Nietzsche
Freud
Modernism
reaction against 19th-century conventions
1. breakdown of traditional literary genres
2. fragmentation of time and place
3. collapse of traditional plot
4. use of complex language
5. purpose of literature: psychological truth
6. unconventional use of myth
7. free verse
Groups
First Generation (1922-1925)
the "unconscious
in daily life"
T.S. Eliot
J. Joyce
V. Woolf
Modernist poetry
Imagism and Vorticism
E. Pound
The Celtic Revival
W.B. Yeats
Myth
T.S.Eliot
New Romanticism
Dylan Thomas
Second Generation
(1925-1948)
political commitment
W. H. Auden
G. Orwell
E. Hemingway
War Poets (WWI)
R. Brooke
S. Sassoon
W. Owen
HISTORY
conflicts and war
WWI
trenches
new warfare
WWII
Holocaust
atomic bomb
Edward VII (1901-1910)
The Edwardian Age
industrialization
growth of
urban areas
transport network
George V
(1910-1936)
Windsor
The Georgian
Age
British "Belle époque"
"The Roaring Twenties"
Edward VIII (1936)
George VI
(1936-1952)
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
(1940-1945)
Society
Women's Suffrage Movement
Emmeline Pankhurst
1918 right to vote (over 30)
modern lifestyle
more liberal attitudes
divorce
800 in 1910;
8000 in 1939
technological commodities
telephone
electricity
radio
motion picture
Henry Ford's assembly line, Model T
1929 The Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression
rise of Labour Party
