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New Directions 1910-1930
The Era of Modernism
- The telephone, the radio,the availability of books, newspapers,and magazines made people know how others lived and thought.
- The new inventions allowed people to travel with a speed that wasn´t thought of before.
- The modern mind found the new knowledge exciting.
- The life in the early twentieth century seemed suddenly different.
- This new ideas and perceptions were expressed in amusing ways.
- In both Europe and America a strong awareness of some sort of break with the past surged.
- The perception of human nature and of the human condition changed.
- Main art movements: Imagism, Cubism, Dadaism and Vorticism.
Modernist Literature
- Modernists took several risks because they wrote on a new style.
- The modern literature sometimes turned into intentional puzzling.
- The modern pshycology had a great impact on literature.
- The old ways of doing things or seeing them didn´t worked anymore.
- It consists on a wide range of authors and movements breaking with style.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay continued writing sonnets.
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The Lost Generation
- Many American writers of this period lived in Europe for part if not all of their lives. For example: Ezra Pound went to London, Robert Frost visited England,& Gertrude Stein settled in Paris
- The European and American artistic communities became closer together.
- The World War I, was an event that destroyed a generation in Europe and led thousands of Americans to early graves.
- The inmigrants brought new ideas and ways of life to America.
- WWI was something the world had never seen. It was a tragic failure of old values, politics and ideas.
- Spanish-American War and Panama Canal made America a world power.
- The people frm the era danced the Charleston. It was the Jazz Age.
- America was emerging from nineteenth-century isolation.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays the Jazz age as ¨beautiful and damned¨ drowning in pleasure.
- Main event of the Modernist era: World War I.
Time Line
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1917 America U.S. declares war on Germany. World Russia: Revolution begins, Bolsheviks seize power.
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1925 America F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
1912 America Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence and Other Poems. World Atlantic Ocean: Titanic, British ocean liner, sinks on its maiden voyage.
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1911 America Pulitzer Prizes established. World Antarctica: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reaches South Pole.
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