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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 started around the early 1900s and continued until the early 1940s. From 1914 to 1939 is be more specific. Modernist writers generally rebelled against clear cut storytelling and formulaic verse from the 19th century.

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Historical Events: Explain how these events helped to shape American Modernism.

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Historical Events: Explain how these events helped to shape American Modernism.

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WWI helped hspaed American Modernism because it redefined women’s rights, race relations, civil liberties and America’s role in the world.

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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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What was important to the American people during this time period was World War, the roaring 1920's and the Great Depression.

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The Roaring 1920s helped shaped American Modernism because the consumer culture flourished, with ever greater numbers of Americans purchasing automobiles, electrical appliances, and other widely available consumer products.

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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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The modernist era was the form and language of poetry and prose, as well as addressing numerous contemporary topics, such as race relations, gender and the human condition.

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The Great Depression helped shape American Modernism because it left 13-15 million Americans looking for work. The sudden standstill of the economy left many disillusioned and speculative of the “American Dream.” As result, new forms of artistic style erupted and flourished throughout the United States, giving the Great Depression its own unique sound and image.

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Stream-of-Consciousness is a literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue.

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Modernist Writers: Briefly describe each author's contribution to the Modern literary period. 

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Modernist Writers: Briefly describe each author's contribution to the Modern literary period. 

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F. Scott Fitzgerald is famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age (the 1920s), especially in his novel The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald conveyed 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 (1899-1961) was an American writer who burst onto the modernist literary scene in Paris during the 1920s and subsequently became one of the most famous authors of the twentieth century. In 1952 The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1954.
Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His prolific literary contributions also include collections of short stories, many of which have appeared in anthologies and textbooks.

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John Steinbeck relates their natural way of speaking, including their diction and idioms, and portrays them with sympathy. While his work is realistic, it is also poetic, and he describes the people he writes about with a sense of ennobling lyricism.

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¨The first world war helped shape modern America. Why is it so forgotten?¨ The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/06/world-war-1-centennial-us-history-modern-america

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Joyce, James. “Stream of Consciousness - Examples and Definition.” Literary Devices, 13 Jan. 2018, literarydevices.net/stream-of-consciousness/.

Keene, Jennifer. “Why World War I Matters in American History.” Why World War I Matters in American History | The American Historian

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Joyce, James. “Stream of Consciousness - Examples and Definition.” Literary Devices, 13 Jan. 2018, literarydevices.net/stream-of-consciousness/.

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¨American culture in the 1920s.¨ Khan Academy. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/rise-to-world-power/1920s-america/a/jazz-and-the-lost-generation

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Carley. ¨The Impact of the Great Depression on Early Modernism." A look Inside. 31 October 2016. https://carleycrow.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/the-impact-of-the-great-depression-on-early-modernism/

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Mizener, Arthur. ¨F. Scott Fitzgerald.¨Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc., 17 December 2019. https://www.britannica.com/biography/F-Scott-Fitzgerald

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Moddelmog, Debra. ¨Ernest Hemingway." Routledge Research Encyclopedias. 15 September 2016, https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/ernest-hemingway

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"What did John Steinbeck contribute to literature?" eNotes Editorial, 18 Jan. 2019, https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-did-john-steinbeck-contribute-literature-396714. Accessed 20 Feb. 2020.