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New Directions (1910-1930) - Coggle Diagram
New Directions (1910-1930)
The Era of Modernism
The new artist shared the complexity of modern life, to discard ideas of the nineteenth century.
Also this period was called The New Era.
Things changed like the perception of nature and human conditions.
Differents movements were born such as imagism, cubism, dedaism, vorticism
It refers to people of post Wars
European authors share ideas with new Americans artists
Before World War I america became a Worldwide power and people had a optimist feeling on this new century.
Some importants authors of this time: Elliot, Sandburg, Lowell, Frost and O'Nell
The Lost Generation
Artists and writers learn from another
Modernist Achievmnet
New art was created
Modernists used the past to create a new relationship with a new world, they called it "supreme fiction"
Modernist Literature
They start writing in new forms and styles and experimental content was creted.
Writers like Williams and Cummings started using free verse
The Human mind doesnt follow a straight line pattern
The readers made their own conclusions
Free verse was the tool of many modernist poets
TIME LINE
1911 The Pulitzer Price was established
1912 Titanic, British ocean liner sinks on its maiden voyage.
1914 Central America Panama Canal was opened
1915 Einstein announces his theory of relativity
1917 U.S delcares war against Germany
1918 Wolrdwide influenza epidemic
1920 Women gain the right to vote
1925 Scott Fitzgerald write "The Great Gatsby"
1930 Sinclair Lewis first American to win Nobel Prize for literature