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NEW DIRECTIONS (1910 - 1930) - Coggle Diagram
NEW DIRECTIONS
(1910 - 1930)
The Lost Generation
America (EEUU) became a world of power
Spanish-American War and the opening of the Panama Canal made this happen
New ideas and ways of life of inmmigrants
Improved communications
American artists were able to exchange views and share ideas
Communications and transportation made Europe and the East more accesible.
America was emerging from 19th century isolation.
World War I was a huge event in this Era (1914-1918)
Americans were in the vanguard of the arts: Pound and T.S. Eliot shaped the poetry of the Modernist era; Stein fostered the early careers of Pablo Picasso and other modern painters
European and American artistic communities drew closer together
Pound acted as the London representative of Poetry:
A Magazine of Verse
An experimental publication begun in Chicago by Harriet Monroe in 1912
Imagist poems had a huge effect on poets, like Carl Sandburg, Amy Lowell, Edgar Lee Masters, Vachel Lindsay
Harlem Renaissance was a burst of creativity in Hughes
WWI was an event that profound the effect of optimism and more people felt they must cast of the tradition of the 19th century
The term lost generation describes the people of postwar years, the mood was often confusion and despair.
America after WWI their mood did not seem desperate, many americans returned to isolation, the door closed to immigrants, and America did not join the League of Nations
After that they succeded by United Nations and established to promote peace, they entered a decae of prosperity and exhibitionism and prohibition like the ban of alcohol
Era of Modernism (1910 - 1930)
People were more aware of people thoughts and how they lived, because of the telephone, radio, widespread availability of book, newspapers and magazines.
Huge advance, people travel place to place more often and with more speed.
Desire to capture complexity of modern life, to focus on the variety and confusion of the twentieth century.
Modernist literature
Range of movements and artists.
Free Verse is the tool of most Modernists poets
Modernist literature is fragmentary
"Make it New
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Risks as they wrote in new forms and styles
They wanted to break the style of last century
Modernists often insist that reader participate and draw their own conclusions
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
The modernist achievement
New ways of art
New relationships with the new world
Achievements on poetry, fiction, drama, music, painting, sculpture, architevture, psychology and philosophy
Broke old forms and styles
Authors
Gertrude Stein
Ezra Pound
T.S. Elliot
Carl Sandburg
William Carlos Williams
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Edgar Lee Masters
E.E Cummings
Countee Cullen
Archibald MacLeish
Ernest Hemmingway