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Modernism

The window breaks. Modernism. What inspires Modernism?. World War I Technology is good: helps win war Technology is bad: kills more people “Ex Pat” movement: Expatriate: People who left America after their disappointment from the war Many of them set up in Paris, France

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Modernism

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  1. The window breaks Modernism

  2. What inspires Modernism? • World War I • Technology is good: helps win war • Technology is bad: kills more people • “Ex Pat” movement: • Expatriate: People who left America after their disappointment from the war • Many of them set up in Paris, France • Presented apathetic front- really feeling a lot of pain

  3. What inspires Modernism? • New York Armory Art Show (1913): • “Nude Descending a Staircase” • Art has no need to be a picture- now we want an artistic sense • Kicks off modernist art movement • Cubism • Pointillism • Etc.

  4. What inspires Modernism? • Movies in competition • First “Speaking” movie by 1927 (Jazz Singer) • Books loosing ground as the only form of entertainment. • More industry • Railroads • Advertisements • Economy booming (until it crashes)

  5. What inspires Modernism? • Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis • Id, Ego, Super-Ego • Id is unconscious- does what it wants • Ego is conscious thought • Super-Ego is morality- sense of right and wrong • Other major revolutionary ideas: • Dream Analysis: In our dreams we make clear other ideas • Oedipus Complex: Every male wants to kill his father to marry his mother • Later Jung develops- Electra Complex: Every woman has penis envy

  6. What inspires Modernism • Albert Einstein: • Space and Time are relative- • You can actually have a time machine • Karl Marx • Communism • The working class will rebel, so instead should split profits • Utopias • “Perfect World” • Technology can create that perfect world

  7. What this meant for the literature… • Imagist poetry: • Try to capture a single image • Reader responds: how they feel is right. • Short stories and novels: • About a broken America • People trying to find Truth. Unsure they can • Largely about war even if war not mentioned • “Stream of consciousness”: • Thoughts just flow out • Whatever the reader interprets is correct

  8. T.S. Eliot • Imagist poet • Not the nicest guy: • Considered Anti-Semetic • Wrote over people’s heads on purpose. • Famous Works: • “The Wasteland”: Collection of allusions meant to make people feel stupid or smart • “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”: Stream of consciousness about a man who does not live life to the fullest-

  9. Ezra Pound • Imagist Poet • Also viewed as not a nice guy: • Supported Hitler and Mussolini in WWII • Also Anti-Semetic • Centered Ex-Pat movement in Paris • His apartment was where everyone went • He introduced influential people • Poems • Believed one true image captured a moment • Also translated Chinese poetry

  10. H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) • Imagist poet • Alternative lifestyle: • Sigmund Freud patient • Self-identified bisexual • Her writings • Pound read her work and found publishers • No one paid much attention again until 1970s

  11. Ernest Hemingway • War experience: • Served as a nurse • Injured in bomb blast, very influential to his life • Lifestyle: • Drank heavily • Loved to hunt big game • May also be Anti-Semetic • Ended up battling depression and shooting himself

  12. Ernest Hemingway • Writer: • Started on newspapers • Eventually did series of short stories based on a character: “Nick” • Moved on to novels about the post-war experience • Influence: • Famous for what was under the surface. • Famous for short sentences that leave much to figure out

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