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Timeline
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1912: Atlantic Ocean: Titanic, British ocean liner, sinks on its maiden voyage
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1925: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
1929: Stock Market crashes, beginning of Great Depression
The Lost Generation
Essential event of the modernist and in the 20th century: World War I, which for many, it was the failure of old values, politics and ideas so a changed was needed
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Many american authors lived a part of their lives in Europe and then return to America and shared the Modernist message
Ezra Pound, London
He was the London representative of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse and he influenced many other authors.
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Langston Hughes, the world
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Eugene O´Neill, the world
E. E. Cummings, France as a prisioner
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Archibald Macleish, Paris
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Artists taught, learned and helped each other
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Americas contempt towards Europe was reafirm and it became a decade of proesperity and extravagances
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Modernist writers didnt want only to express the waste and futulity they experienced, but the attempting to make some sense of that experience.
Modernist Literature
Artists and movements that break the style, form and content of the 19th century. Writers worked to make their poems and plays and novels new and different.
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Now, the human mind doesnt follow the straigh-line pattern
William James called the stream of consciusness the think by leaping from association to association.
James Joyce was the greatest practioner of the Modernist style. His work Ulysses is sometimes said to be the last novel written because it took prose narrative to its most extreme point. He had a extraordinary influence.
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Free verse is the tool of most Modernist poets and the visual appearence of it is a significant factor.
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Era of Modernism
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The telephone, radio, the availability of books, newspapers and magazines allowed people to know how other lived and thought
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The Modernist Achievment
Modernists used the past to create a new relationship with a new world and Wallace Stevens called it the supreme fiction. Its a open door for possibilities.