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NEW DIRECTIONS 1910 - 1930 - Coggle Diagram
NEW DIRECTIONS 1910 - 1930
The Era of Modernism
1910, Human nature did not change, and -woolf knew it. What she meant was that the perception of human nature and of the human condition changed.
New inventions, The telephone, the radio, and the widespread availability of books, newspapers, and magazines all made people more aware of how others lived and thought.
1910-1930 the era of modernism, America a Strong awareness some sort of "break" with the past, Movements like Imagism, Cubism, Dadaism, Vorticism, and many others.
The Lost Generation
The most important event World War I (1914-1918) Before the war the acttitude was one of great optimism.
The Spanish-American War and the openning of the Panama Canal made America World power; millions of immigrants brought new ideas and ways of life to American shores.
Many American writers of this period lived in Europe for part if not all of thier lives. Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein Hughes, Robert Frost, Eugene O´Neil.
The European and American artistic communities drew closer together, Hughes became a leading figure in the burst of creativity called the Harlem Renaissance.
It was not simply going abroad, however, that made the greatest difference to Americans in Europe: It was the outrage of the war itself.
1920s America did not seem desparte.
Modernist Literature
Modern psychology had a profound imapct on the literature most great Moderinst writers were interested in the humans mind.
Association to association in what the Psycologist Willliam James called the "Stream of consiciousness"
The greatest practitioner of the Modernist style, however, was the Irish novelist James Joyc, Whose Ulysses (1922)
Modernist literature is often fragmentary, reflecting noy only the "stream of consciousness" but modernist perception of the twentieth century.
The degrees to which writers of this period adapted Modernist tecniques vary greatly.
The Modernist Achievement
They took the first great steps in the search for a new art. They broke out of old forms and styles and generated new onces.
The Modernist achivement lies largely in throwing open for us the doors of possibility.
