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Unit 1: Period 1: 1491–1607
Unit 2: Period 2: 1607–1754
Unit 3: Period 3: 1754–1800
Unit 4: Period 4: 1800–1848
Unit 5: Period 5: 1844–1877
Unit 6: Period 6: 1865–1898
Unit 7: Period 7: 1890–1945
Unit 8: Period 8: 1945–1980
Unit 9: Period 9: 1980–Present
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Unit 3: Modernism
20th Century
Popular facts
Women- voting rights, break taboos
Stock market
Roaring 20s
Jazz- New Orleans
“Sin” Industry- alcohol, gambling
Class Gap
World War I
Ended in 1918
Disillusioned because of the war, the generation that fought and survived has come to be called “the lost generation”
The roaring 20s
Depression and disillusionment took a less obvious form coming out of WWI
The Jazz Age
Music promoted by such recent inventions as the phonograph and the radio swept from New Orleans to capture the national imagination
Improvised and wild, broke the rules of music
“It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire.” -Fitzgerald
The New Woman
Demanded the right to vote and to work outside the home
Symbolically cut her hair into a boyish bob and bared her calves in short skirts- became known as
flapper
s
drunk alcohol, smoked, went dancing as unmarried women, “scandalous” activities
Modernism- psychological realism
“Make it new” -Ezra Pound
Abstract expressionism
Historical Context 1915-46
Reaction to overwhelming optimism preceding WWI and sense of promise introduced by technological advances
Tragic devastation proceeding WWI
Value differences in the Modern World
Themes of Alienation and Existentialism
Confused sense of identity and place in the world, the collapse of morality and values, loss of faith, fluctuating, pessimistic, futile, chaotic
Characteristics
“dis” Themes: disjointedness, disillusionment, disenchantment, disappointment, dissatisfaction
Collapse of the American dream: It’s impossible for the individual to triumph and America is no longer a “new Eden,” a land of opportunity
Collaboration with the reader: implied themes and piecemeal prose forces readers to draw their own conclusions
Reader has to piece together chronology and true image of titular character
Fragmentation
- texts are fragmented to reflect fragmentation of the modern world (expositions, transitions, resolutions, and explanations are omitted)
Cynical Tone
Characteristics of Modernism literature
Emphasis on bold experimentation in style and form
Rejection of traditional themes and subjects. Loss of faith in religion and society.
Sense of disillusionment and loss of faith in the American dream
Gatsby eg: Nick
TS Elliot “Wasteland”
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Unit 1: Period 1: 1491–1607
Unit 2: Period 2: 1607–1754
Unit 3: Period 3: 1754–1800
Unit 4: Period 4: 1800–1848
Unit 5: Period 5: 1844–1877
Unit 6: Period 6: 1865–1898
Unit 7: Period 7: 1890–1945
Unit 8: Period 8: 1945–1980
Unit 9: Period 9: 1980–Present
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