Modern Era

1. Modern Era By: Ilse Isidro

2. When & where? • The Modern Era took place in the late 1890’s-1940’s • There was also a period of so-called "high modernism," 1920-5. • It mostly took place in Western Society and parts of Europe.

3. Social and Political background? • Rejection of European culture for having become too corrupt, complacent and lethargic, ailing because it was bound by the artificialities of a society that was too preoccupied with image and too scared of change. • Modernism (1890s–1940s): A literary and artistic movement that provided a radical breaks with traditional modes of Western art, thought, religion, social conventions, and morality. • Increasing globalization and industrialization. • WWI (1914-1918) • Great Depression (1929-1930’s) • WWII (1939-1945) • Civil Rights Movement (1950’s-1960’s) • Vietnam War (1950’s-1970’s)

4. LITERARY CHARACTERISTICS THAT EXIMPLIFIES PERIOD • Nihilism: rejection of all religious and moral principles as the only means of obtaining social progress. • Major themes of this period include the attack on notions of hierarchy; experimentation in new forms of narrative, such as stream of consciousness; doubt about the existence of knowable, objective reality; attention to alternative viewpoints and modes of thinking; and self-referentiality as a means of drawing attention to the relationships between artist and audience, and form and content. • Poetry: Open form, free verse, juxtaposition, allusions, metaphors. • Narrative: experimental nature, lack of chronological narrative, fragmentation, self-reflexive, characters consciousness,

5. IMPORTANT FIGURES & THEIR WORKS • Ezra Pound: "Make it new" was modernism's mottoe. (poet) • Gertrude Stein(Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms) • Robert Frost (Chicken stories) • William Carlos Williams • Wallace Stevens • Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises) • Marianne Moore (1887-1972) • F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby) • William Faulkner. • Samuel Beckett, James Joyce (Ulysses) , Joseph Conrad, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, E.E. Cummings, Sylvia Plath, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Butler Yeats, EzraPound, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, and GertrudeStein.

6. Le Poem • A Girl • The tree has entered my hands,The sap has ascended my arms,The tree has grown in my breast -Downward,The branches grow out of me, like arms.Tree you are,Moss you are,You are violets with wind above them.A child - so high - you are,And all this is folly to the world. • Ezra Pound

7. The Old Man at the BridgeLe prose • http://biblioklept.org/2012/07/06/read-the-old-man-at-the-bridge-a-short-story-by-ernest-hemingway/ • By: Ernest Hemingway • Yayyyyyy

8. Bibliography • http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/modernism.html • http://sparkcharts.sparknotes.com/lit/literaryterms/section5.php • http://www.online-literature.com/periods/modernism.php • http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/engl203/overviews/twentiethoview.htm • http://www.mdc.edu/wolfson/academic/ArtsLetters/art_philosophy/Humanities/history_of_modernism.htm • http://www.slideshare.net/ciaffaroni/modernism-in-literature-1082251