Chapter 29 - Between Two Fires (Section One)

Same as all the other Knowt sets.

World War I marked what?

The great divide between the old and new.

The postwar period was a time of breaking _________ and experimenting with new styles in what?

^ Tradition

Politics and culture.

Nineteenth Amendment = ?

\*Y’all, it’s Women’s History Month. Get this right.

Gave women in the United States the right to vote.

Flapper = ?

The newer, more progressive fashion style for women that emerged in the Roaring 20s.

The decade following World War I (the 1920s) witnessed what?

A revolution in transportation and communication.

List some of the most influential inventions of the 1920s:

* *Automobile*
* *Radio*
* Packaged foods
* Refrigerators
* Vacuum cleaners
* Electric irons

Albert Einstein = ?

* Time and space depend on the relative motion of bodies in space.
* The speed of light is constant.
* All matter has energy.
* E = MC² led to the creation of the atomic bomb.

Sigmund Freud = ?

* Revolutionized people’s ideas about how the human mind works.
* Concluded that the unconscious mind play a major role in shaping behavior because it is full of early childhood. memories.
* Many people attacked his work, but they eventually accepted it.

Oedipus Complex = ?

The sexual desire that a child normally feels toward the parent of the opposite sex, along with feelings of jealousy toward the parent of the same sex.

James Joyce = ?

Author of *Ulysses* and *Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man*, he took a stream-of-conscious approach to writing.

Stream-of-Conscious = ?

* An approach to writing in which an author presents the inner thoughts—rather than just the external actions—of their characters.
* A landmark in the development of the modern novel.

Which authors wrote about despair? (*i.e.*, list the emo boys.)

* T.S. Eliot
* John Steinbeck
* Franz Kafka
* Eric Maria Remarque

Which authors wrote anti-war literature?

* Siegfried Sassoon
* Wilfred Owen

Pablo Picasso = ?

Painted the earliest example of cubism.

Cubism = ?

An abstract art form that uses intersecting geometric shapes.

Dada = ?

Stressed absurdity and the role of the unpredictable in life. The paintings and poems of this movement consisted of meaningless and random arrangements of objects and words.

Salvador Dali = ?

The most famous surrealist painter.

Surrealism = ?

An art form that used dreamlike and unnatural combinations of objects.

Sergey Prokofiev = ?

Created dissonant music.

Dissonant music = ?

Music that lacked the familiar harmonies of traditional forms; unpleasant to listen to.

Arnold Schoenberg = ?

* Proposed new musical arrangements based on twelve equal values.
* Used dissonance as an expression of decay in Western society.

Jazz = ?

A mixture of American folk songs, West African rhythms, harmonies from European classical music, and work songs from the days of slavery.

List the pioneers of jazz:

* Louis Armstrong
* Bessie Smith
* Jelly Roll Morton

Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham did what

Created what we consider to be modern dance.

Sergei Diaghilev = ?

* Spearheaded a company of dancers known as the *Ballet Russes*.
* Developed modern ballet.