PPT-Modernism: Disillusion, Defiance, and Discontent

19141945 Major Influences World War I The Jazz AgeRoaring Twenties Prohibition The Harlem Renaissance 19 th Amendment Women Suffrage The Great Depression The New Deal Factories Larger cities. Timeless Wisdom for Today’s Christians: . An Introduction to the Puritans. Thomas Watson. “The Art of Divine Contentment”. Born 1620 (year the Pilgrims landed). Married and had 7 children, 4 of whom died as children. OCTEO Spring 2015. Presented by: Ian Macgregor and Jeannie Von Deylen. Effective Partnership Practices . Teacher Advisory Board. Experiences during all four years : Early clinical experience into field placement levels. . The . Lord. had said to Abram, “Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you. . Needs Holy Discontent!. . Nehemiah 1:2-6. I asked them about the Jews who had returned there from captivity and about how things were going in Jerusalem.. 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.. 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 . 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). Movements in Literature and Art. Modernism in Literature. Post WWI, pre WWII. Nontraditional syntax and forms. Accessible to everyone, not just academics. Pessimistic picture of a culture in chaos. Question moral and philosophical meanings. Introduction. Context – Tsars had ruled through a strict autocracy for hundreds of years. The use of oppression had kept the public from being able to revolt. In 1905, there was an attempted revolution.. 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. . Defining. Modernism. “I haven’t changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it…It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That’s what modernism means to me.”. crevice. A narrow opening; a crack. defiance. Resistance; challenge. despairingly. Hopelessly; despondently. dismal. Gloomy and cheerless. flawed. Damaged; defective; imperfect. lament. To express deep regret; to grieve. 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.”