PPT-Edwardians and modernists

Shari Benstock In accounting for this unsettling of selfunity one must also consider the political and social effects of World War I the advent of industrial mechanisation the loss of belief in God the loss of colonial empires the changing status of women and minorities all of which altered the cultural landscape against which literature was produced in the early years of the twentieth century We live today in a world that has been constructed out of these changes nearly all the changes that discomposed the complacent world of 1910 have been culturally assimilated . Sarah Turner Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art The Hills are empty now and all the People of the Hills are gone Im the only one left Im Puck the oldest Old Thing in England very much at your service if if you care to have anything to do Ch. . 29 . in TCI . Add to your notebook. Clash between Traditionalists and Modernists (. ch.. 29) 4. Essential Question . How did Traditionalists and Modernists Clash . during the 1920s? . Which of these factors contributed least to the divide between rural traditionalists and urban modernists in the 1920s?. A. Traditionalists . often viewed modernist trends as immoral.. B. Many . modernists envied the peace and quiet of small-town life.. Term 2. , Week 8. “The . maelstrom of modern life has been fed from many sources: great discoveries in the physical sciences, changing our images of the universe and our place in it; the industrialization of production, which transforms scientific knowledge into technology, creates new human environments and destroys old ones, speeds up the whole tempo of life, generates new forms of corporate power and class struggle; immense demographic upheavals, severing millions of people from their ancestral habitats, hurtling them halfway across the world into new lives; rapid and often cataclysmic urban growth; systems of mass communication, dynamic in their development, enveloping and binding together the most diverse people and societies; increasingly powerful national states, bureaucratically structured and operated, constantly striving to expand their powers; mass social movements of people, and peoples, challenging their political and economic rulers, striving to gain some control over their lives; finally, bearing and driving all these people and institutions along, an ever-expanding, drastically fluctuating capitalist world market. . Events and trends that helped shape Modernism. History that led to Modernism. World War I 1914-1918. First “modern” war. Employed new artillery firepower (machine guns, Howitzers shells, tanks, airplane . Zak Diethorn, Nicole Steedle, Shannon Spangler. Time period . From beginning of the 20th century to about 1965. The period was marked with breaks in the traditional ways of viewing the world in areas such as society, religion, and politics.. Unit II – the 1920s. Essential Question: . How did social, economic and religious tensions divide Americans during the 1920s?. Essential Question . How did social, economic and religious tensions divide Americans during the 1920s?.