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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. Week. . 2, Day 1. (8 September 2015). Did You Buy the Class Text??. There is ONE class text ONLY that you MUST obtain for this class. . It’s available from the English Department office (1027), and it costs just 6000 won . Judeo-Christian beliefs = apathy or contempt?. Opt for believing in things that seem incoherent or bizarre?. Popular . culture . nurtures aberrant beliefs or misinformed beliefs. My general approach. realism.. . Arguably . the most paradigmatic motive of modernism is the rejection of . tradition and . its reprise, incorporation, rewriting, recapitulation, revision and parody in new . forms.. . Modernism . 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.. Reading Contemporary Fiction. Lecture Week Seven. Structure of the lecture. Realism, a brief recap.. Modernism. Modernist . Fiction. Post-Structuralism and Post-Modernism. A Post-Modern text: 500 Days of Summer. post-modernism. My intent in this paper is to refute the thesis that the black humor is a modern invention. I am about the attitude to death and life inherent for this kind of humor, arguing that i 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 . wars, Prosperity, & Depression. Modernism. Recognized not only in literature, but also. a. rchitecture. p. hilosophy. p. sychology. a. nthropology. painting. m. usic. sculpture. t. he sciences. A Movement of Cultural Crisis. Dubliners. : James Joyce . Shahd. . Alshammari. , AOU, Spring Semester 2013/14. Intro to Part One. The short story as ‘the child of the century’ Elizabeth Brown. . The concept of literary period- historical, cultural, artistic. . Which intellectual and social movement was the Romantic movement a reaction to?. The Renaissance. The Enlightenment. The . Gilded . Age. The Medieval era. Which of the following were key reasons behind the Romantic movement?. Let’s start here…. Brainstorm a list of all the things you know about America in the 1920s…. Modernism . & the Modern . Novel. Refers . to the radical shift in aesthetic and cultural sensibilities evident in the art and literature . Modernism. More and more . artists & composers rejected the classical traditions . of art & music and . strove towards originality. . (why?). Avoiding classical harmony and forms . at all cost, they . 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 Questions to consider . Define the word “modern” in your own words:. What does the word modern mean to you? . What are its associations?. Is it a positive or negative term? Why?. Definition. Modernism is a literary and cultural international movement which flourished in the first decades of the 20th century. It reflects a sense of cultural crisis which was both exciting and disquieting, in that it opened up a whole new vista of human possibilities at the same time as putting into question any previously accepted means of grounding and evaluating new ideas. Modernism is marked by experimentation, particularly manipulation of form, and by the realization that knowledge is not absolute..