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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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Modernism arose during the early 20th century and continued for about 3 decades.

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The war where world powers fought against each other. Allied forces included Britain, France, and Russia. Central Powers included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey. War was initiated on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. America joined in after German submarine sank American merchant ships.

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- Economy boomed
- Once luxury items now available to more Americans
- More Americans go into debt to keep American Dream
- More celebrities appeared
- The period where America "lost" writers appeared

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The period that began after the end of the roaring 1920s. The cause was the stock market crash. Americans lost their jobs and production for daily consumables decreased. People rationed out food.

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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, America was in the Gilded Age, where there was a huge transition from old ways to new ways in terms of the economy and the industrial sector. American people were concerned with economic sustainability and progressive ideas like child education and more rights for women. With the arrival of WWI and WWII, people were more concerned about how they would be able to sustain themselves for the future.

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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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Modernism is a new form of expression that is characterized by a self-conscious "break" in traditional styles of literature.

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One of America's "lost writers". Wrote the well-known book "The Great Gatsby". The book was inspired on his own life where he attends extravagant parties daily.

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He was a writer known for his way of writing. He writes novels in a straightforward way. One of his famous books is "Old Man and the Sea".

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Another American writer famous for his personality like Hemingway. He is well known for his letters and the novels like "Of Mice and Men" and "The Grapes of Wrath"

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Stream-of-consciousness is a literary device that directs the reader into the characters' minds, allowing the reader to "listen in" on the character's throughts and feelings as they occur.

This literary device goes out of the convention of known literary devices (going along with the break of convetionality aspect of Modernism) and provides the audience a surreal experience in literature and art.

Modernist writer James Joyce used stream-of-consciousness in his novels, for example Ulysses, in which a character named Molly Bloom delivers a 4,391 word sentence of internal monologue that is expressed for the reader.