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Modernism 1910 - 1930

Modernism 1910 - 1930. Urged on by Ezra Pound’s exhortation to “Make it new!,” poets and writers of this period made every effort to break with the past and establish new forms of literature. Ideas Shaping the Twentieth Century. Einstein. Marx. Freud. Karl Marx.

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Modernism 1910 - 1930

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  1. Modernism 1910 - 1930 Urged on by Ezra Pound’s exhortation to “Make it new!,” poets and writers of this period made every effort to break with the past and establish new forms of literature.

  2. Ideas Shaping the Twentieth Century Einstein Marx Freud

  3. Karl Marx • The Communist Manifesto, 1847 • Theory that economic systems determine social structure and even thought • Belief that the upper-class exploits the lower-class

  4. Sigmund Freud • Proposed the existence of a subconscious mind • Belief that childhood conflicts and trauma determine adult personality • Belief that sexuality motivates most of human behavior

  5. Albert Einstein • Theory of Relativity • Mutability of matter • Variability of time • These and other ideas ended the Newtonian universe

  6. Political and Social Upheaval • World War I demonstrated the new realities of the twentieth century • Divided reaction: sexual revolution vs. prohibition, Jazz Age vs.Monkey Trial, Civil Rights vs. Sacco and Vanzetti

  7. Literary Movements of Modernism • Expatriates • Lost Generation

  8. Literary Movements of Modernism • American scene • Harlem Renaissance • Social criticism • Greenwich Village bohemians

  9. Literary Movements of Modernism • American scene (continued) • Midwest • Sexual Revolution (The Jazz Age)

  10. Expatriates and Imagism • Ezra Pound, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse • T. S. Eliot The Wasteland, 1922 • New forms of poetry • James Joyce, Pablo Picasso

  11. The Lost Generation • Paris in the 1920’s • Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, born with the twentieth century, disillusioned by WW I • Defiant of American conservatism

  12. The Harlem Renaissance • African-Americans in New York City writing about the unique experience of their community • Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston

  13. Social Criticism • Sinclair Lewis Babbitt, Elmer Gantry • Dorothy Parker and the Algonquin Round Table • H.L. Mencken

  14. Greenwich Village • The bohemian movement in America (uninhibited unconventional lifestyle) • Edna St. Vincent Millay, e.e. cummings • Connection with Paris expatriates

  15. The Emergence of the Midwest • Harriet Monroe’s Poetry established in Chicago • Carl Sandburg • Edgar Lee Masters • Hemingway born in Oak Park, Fitzgerald in St. Paul

  16. The Jazz Age • The sexual revolution: flappers, jazz, Freud, the rumble seat, Margaret Sanger • Writers and poets challenged the restrictions against dealing with sexuality in literature

  17. The Jazz Age (continued) • Publication of Joyce’s Ulysses and Lawrence’s works • Fitzgerald’s forward females in The Great Gatsby and short stories, psychoses in Tender is the Night

  18. The Jazz Age (continued) • Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (psychological naturalism) • Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises

  19. The 1920’s, what a decade!

  20. Check out the website: www.sns.com/~rbotti/1920.htm

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