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NEW DIRECTIONS (1910-1930) - Coggle Diagram
NEW DIRECTIONS (1910-1930)
MODERN TIMES CALLS FOR MODERN MEASURES, RIGHT ?....
MODERNIST LITERATURE:
-Recognition appeared for the human mind on it not always following the straight-line pattern.
-They took risks as they wrote in new forms and styles.
-Modernists literature is often experimental in form and in content.
- Modern psychology had a profound impact on the literature of the 20th century, this meant that most authors were interested in human behavior.
- We talk about a broad range of artists and movements, wich all wanted to break the style of content of the old century.
- Modernists literature is often fragmentary, reflecting not only streams of consciousness.
-Free verse is the tool of most Modernists poets.
- Their subject matter proves that they couldn't have written at any other time.
- They often insisted that their readers participate and draw their conclusions.
They show rather than tell.
WHAT DO WE WANT? ACHIEVEMENTS !, WHEN DO WE WANT THEM ? NOW!
THE MODERNIST ACHIEVENT:
- Studied the elements of the past that could in fact still be used and why the other ones needed to go.
- They and their followers began to create a new realtionship with a new world.
- Achievements on poetry, fiction, drama, music, painting, sculpture, architecture, psychology, and philosophy.
- Took the first step to find new ways of art.
- They broke out of old forms and styles and generated new ones.
SOME THINGS THAT HAPPENED DURING THIS PERIOD...
TIMELINE:
(1914) Beginning of World War I
(1917) the U.S. declares war on Germany
(1918) Worldwide influenza epidemic, approximately 20 million died by 1920.
(1920) Women gain the right to vote.
(1920) League of Nations was established
(1923) Times magazine first published.
(1925) F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
(1928) England: Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
(1929) Stock markets crash, beginning of the Great Depression.
(1930) Sinclair Lewis first American to win Nobel Prize for Literature
THEY WERE AS LOST AS
THE LOST GENERATION:
-Artists and writers taught one another, and learned from each other and helped each other with bringing their works before the public.
-Those American authors that couldn't go abroad chose to serve as drivers in WWI.
-The European and American artistic communities drew closer together.
- It was not only going abroad that made these American poets outstanding, but it was also the outrage of the war since WWI was the main event at the time.
- Its pivotal event of the Modernist era was World War I, before this period, the feeling was one of pure optimism.
- This was the Jazz era, (the period when New Orleans musicians moved up to the river)
-This period also serves to mask and cope with the suffering the people were living, this was clearly observed by Gertrude Stein.
- The task the modernists faced was not only to express the waste and futility they experienced.
A NEW PERIOD FOR LITERATURE
THE ERA OF MODERNISM:
- It was said that a person who lived on a remote village learned more on the perspective of life than a well-educated individual.
-The mind during this period found new knowledge intriguing but it was also contradicted by the philosophies and ways of life.
- Life in this new century was innovative due to the new inventions that were made in this period.
- Several artistic movements appeared during this period, such as cubism, dadaism, vorticism amongst others.
- The perception of human nature and the human condition has changed and now was presented in a startling way.
SOME OF THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS MINDS WERE....
AUTHORS:
William Carlos Williams
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
T.S. Elliot
Gertrude Stein
Ezra Pound
Carl Sandburg
Edgar Lee Masters
E.E Cummings
Countee Cullen
Archibald MacLeish
Ernest Hemmingway