Modernism At Home and Abroad

The 1920s features significant changes in what?

Music, social behavior, and artistic practices

What was the most significant literary revolutions?

The rise of modernism

The modernist movement transformed what?

Dance, visual arts, and literature as well as the emergence of photography and cinema

What is modernism?

The efforts of artists to come to terms with the radical changes occurring across the world

What were some of the rapid technological changes of modernism?

Rapid technological innovations, developments in psychology and social sciences, particularly psychoanalytic theories

Who founded psychoanalytic theories?

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freuds psychoanalytic beleifs challenged what long held beliefs?

Beliefs about development and desire increased levels of urbanization and the subsequent sensations of alienation and isolation and region and the unprecedented violence of WW1

Artists felt a pressure to do what?

Break from old traditions and in the words of famous modernist poet and critic Ezra Pound “make it new”

How did artists break from old traditions?

They experimented with new techniques, forms, and subject matters

What literary strategies did modernism include?

A direct presentations of experience, economical use of language, symbolism, and an informal colloquial style

What traditional forms did American modernists avoid from using?

Traditional forms, rhyme schemes, and meter

Modernists abandoned traditional forms in favor of what?

Original, non-rhyming forms and musical or conversational style

What is John Dos Passos known for?

Implementing nonlinear, cinematic, and journalistic storytelling technique into his novels

Who played with radical new linguistic forms?

Gertrude Stein

What did Gertrude Stein focus on?

Pure language often dispensing entirely with traditional narrative and representational strategies

What did Ernest Hemingway try out?

New approaches to language by rejecting the overly descriptive language of Victorian and naturalist writers

What is the most influential piece of modernist writing?

The Waste Land

Who wrote The Waste Land?

T.S. Eliot

How did The Waste land fundamentally upend long held beliefs about the purpose and nature of poetry?

Through the use of collage and disjunction, free verse, unsentimental impersonality, and a dense web of references to both high and low culture

Which writers were experimental with their works?

Dos Passos, Stein, Eliot, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce

What experimental feature did Fitzgerald use in his writing?

The tendency to emphasize the individual consciousness as a primary focal point of storytelling

What is reflected in Fitzgeralds writing?

Many of the philosophical concerns of the modernist period