PPT-2 + 2 + Modernism 1910-1940

2 2 Historical Influences WW The Jazz Age and The Great Depression Add a Footer 2 Add a Footer Experimental symbolism green light Imagery understatement irony Key Characteristics. VMUJ57358QSPEVDU57345GBNJMZ57345HSPVQ57345DBQBCJMJUZ 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 Background. 1901-1910 – Edward VII. 1902 – End of The Anglo-Boer War. 1910-1936 – George V. 1914-1918 – First World War. 1916 – Dublin, . Easter Rising. 1917 – Revolution in Russia. 1918 – Vote for Women over 30 years of age in G.B.. Definitions. Supply of Energy 4. 4A. 5. 5. Provisions where license of a licensee, is revoked. 6. Purchase of undertaking in the purchaser. 7. Vesting of the undertaking The term was applied to a whole host of movements, many in art, music, and literature, that reacted against modernism, and are typically marked by revival of traditional elements and techniques.. Literature of this period reflects the social activism and social change characteristic of the times. In the latter half of this period, the influence of the digital age is reflected in new and emerging forms of writing and literacy.. 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 . The . Lost. Generation. -Isms. Romanticism, Dark Romanticism, Transcendentalism. (Louisiana Purchase, figuring out the role of government, industrialization vs. nature). Realism. (Reaction to the Civil War, push to make literature relatable). 1914-1945. Major Influences. World War I. The Jazz Age/Roaring Twenties. Prohibition. The Harlem Renaissance. 19. th. Amendment (Women Suffrage). The . Great Depression. The New . Deal. Factories. Larger cities. unresolved. different meanings across fields. Politics and Econ. Arts. Religion – it is heresy (original use). Modernism. ’. s Materials. the everyday – boring, mundane. day novels – . Ulysses. Shari Benstock. “In accounting for this ‘unsettling’ of self-unity, 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.” . Rajesh Kevin Sanjay. “Modernism is not a precise label but instead a way of referring to the efforts of many individuals across the arts who tried to move away from established modes of representations”. Modernism 1 Modernism….. An international artistic movement Architecture, arts and crafts, film and literature Began in the latter part of the 19 th century Came to an end(?) in the middle of the twentieth century Modernism 1915-1940 After World War I Disillusionment with eternal verities of “glory,” “honor,” and “patriotism” after what the soldiers had witnessed. Gertrude Stein (actually, she overheard this): “You are all a lost generation.” A sequel to the hit PowerPoint presentation,. Modernism: More than a mass of crudely drawn rectangles, thank you very much. . (. link here. , in case you forgot that one). * . Menand. , Louis. “Saved From Drowning.” Rev. of . Parallelisms and Differences. Critical Studies Series for PG English. Shalini. Rachel Varghese. Asst. Professor, Christian College, . Chengannur. Introduction. Modernism and Postmodernism -two movements in lit and art.