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New Directions
Time Line
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1912 - Atlantic Ocean: Titanic, British ocean liner, sinks on its maiden voyage
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The Era of Modernism
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A widespread availability of books, newspapers, and magazines.
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New inventions such as; airplanes, telephones, and radios.
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Different movements appeared in several branches of art, like, Imagism, Cubism, Dadaism, Vorticism and many others.
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The Lost Generation
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How the view on life change after the World War I. It was the pivotal event, before war the attitude was one of optimism.
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How people needed a change, the mood was often one of despair and confusion.
"You are all a lost generation" -- Gertrude Stain to Ernest Hemingway. Term used to the generation post war.
The Americans who were in Europe and the Europeans suffering post war, but the ones in U.S was not that affected.
The modernist writer not only expressed the waste and futility that they had experienced, they attempted to make some sense of it.
Americans entering a decade of prosperity and exhibitionism: that ban alcohol, had extravagant fashion, automobiles, and advertising.
Modernist Literature
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A broad range of artists and movements, with wanted to break the style of the old century.
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Taking risks on new ways of writing, experimenting in various ways.