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What is the time period of American Modernism?

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What is the time period of American Modernism?

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American Modernism took place during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, between World War I and World War II.

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What was important to the American people during this time period?

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What was important to the American people during this time period?

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During this time period, the American people collected artworks of famous artists and appreciated the art.

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Identify and explain the characteristics of Modernism? 

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Identify and explain the characteristics of Modernism? 

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-they broke traditions
-belief that the world is created in the act of perceiving
-there is no absolute truth, everything is relative
-life is unordered

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World War I changed the way writers and artists viewed the world. During the war, millions of people died and left survivors homeless and hungry. Which ruined monuments of civilization and sparked an artistic movement, modernism.

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American writers during the 1920's were known as the "Lost Generation".
During this time, the Great Gatsby came about and showed the American dream ending with a nightmare.

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During the great depression, many were left unemployed after the stock market crash of October 1929. Writers began to look to politics and economics for inspiration for their writings. Writers wrote about the problems and troubles people go through everyday. Instead of reflecting off of past writings, modernists did the opposite and based their writings of of new experiences in America.

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Scott Fitzgerald was an American story-story writer and novelist famous his depictions of the Jazz age. His famous novel, the Great Gatsby inspired many in not only America but also in England. Fitzgerald revealed in The Great Gatsby the sense of hope America promised to its youth and the disappointment its youth felt when America failed to deliver.

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Ernest Hemingway attempts to describe life as experienced rather than as filtered through literary illusions. Hemingway's writing style in The Old Man and the Sea and beyond is straight forward and realistic. This was different from other writers during this time.

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John Steinbeck's writing include experimental writing of new thing. His novels display current events and social/economic issues such as the Great Depression. His writing influenced those to look at life in a different perspective.

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Stream of Consciousness is a method of narration that describes what happens in the flow of thoughts in the minds of the characters. THe stream of Conscious can be described as a style of writing that lacks punctuation and thought. It aimed at expressing in words the character thought and feel in their minds. FOr example in the novel, Mrs. Dalloway, written by Virginia Woolf, an excerpt from her novel commented, “What a lark! What a plunge! For so it always seemed to me when, with a little squeak of the hinges, which I can hear now, I burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air. How fresh, how calm, stiller than this of course, the air was in the early morning; like the flap of a wave; the kiss of a wave; chill and sharp and yet (for a girl of eighteen as I then was) solemn, feeling as I did, standing there at the open window, that something awful was about to happen …”

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