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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 started from around 1914 and ended in around 1939, which is during the 20th century. During this time period, many events such as the Great Depression and World War 1 occurred which greatly damaged the ideals of American Romanticism.

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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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Modernism is a movement that represented the struggle that challenged people's lives. During the 20th century, Modernist expresses their ideas in poetry, proses, and books. They focuses more on race, gender, and human conditions.

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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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Some characteristics of Modernism includes sense of disillusionment, loss of faith in the American dream, emphasis on bold experimentation in style and form, and interest in individual and their humans mind. This means that modernist are strongly against religious, political, and economic views. They focused more on their sub-consciousness and believed that "the world is what we said it is."

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World War 1 changed the views of many writers and artists on the world. They began to focus more on human's potential. The idea of war that killed millions of people, left many people homeless and hungry, and destroyed many lands sparked many writers to write and create modernism.

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Modernist wrote pieces of literature that reflect on the time period of the Roaring 20s. During this period, the rich are too wealthy and the poor are too poor. Modernist used this time to write about the problems,  such as poverty, that people encountered and how they overcome the hardship they had at that time.

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Fitzgerald's works are linked to the Jazz Age and Fitzgerald authored "The Great Gatsby," which portrayed the life and journey of a man living the American dream, rising from poverty and up to luxury. His works contributed to the Modern literary period because his works questioned and portrayed the failure of the American dream for foreigners and those that were brought up in this time period.

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The Great Depression damaged the idealism of many Americans, causing distrust in societal institutions and question the cultural traditions that guided American life. These causes many American writers to create new approaches for telling stories that talks about the modern world.

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Hemingway's literary works such as  "The Sun Also Rises" evoked the hard-ships and illusions created by postwar Europe. Many Americans and others who participated in World War 1 came home "lost," and thus in modern days, the generation was called the "lost generation." The psychological and mental brunt of the war left them without place in the world when they came home. "The Sun Also Rises" was a work that influenced the literary prose of many generations to come, and featured bare boned literary language.

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Steinbeck's literary works, most notably "The Grapes of Wrath" portrayed the harsh reality of a working class family, invoking the image of the Great Depression during that time, where the market crashed and everyone suffered from the economy.

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A narrative technique which abandoned chronology and attempted to portray the moment to moment process of a character's perceptions and memories. This technique is modernistic in the way that it experimented the way authors created their literary works, as well as the exploration of the human and inner workings of the mind. These two traits of the technique uniquely coincide with the characteristics of Modernism. Within literature, this could be explicitly stated by the author, such as describing what a character felt or what they thought in that point in time of the story.

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Works Cited

Lorcher, Trent. “Modernism in Literature: What Are Characteristics of Modernism in Writing?” Bright Hub Education, 4 Oct. 2019, www.brighthubeducation.com/high-school-english-lessons/29453-modernism-in-literature/.

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“Modernism Of The Roaring Twenties Essay Examples.” Cram, www.cram.com/essay/Modernism-Of-The-Roaring-Twenties/P38689FNB5ZW.

Onion, Amanda. “How World War I Changed Literature.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 26 Apr. 2018, www.history.com/news/how-world-war-i-changed-literature.

“Modernism in the Great Depression Timeline.” Timetoast, 1 Jan. 1917, www.timetoast.com/timelines/modernism-in-the-great-depression.

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Elements of Literature, edited by Kylene Beers, Carol

Jago, Deborah Appleman, Leila Christenbury, Sara Kajder, Linda Reif, Holt, 2009, pp.

746-751.

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Elements of Literature, edited by Kylene Beers, Carol

Jago, Deborah Appleman, Leila Christenbury, Sara Kajder, Linda Reif, Holt, 2009, pp.

746-751.