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MODERNISM IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

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WHAT ARE THE FEATURES OF CURRENT AMERICAN LIT?
TIMELINES, APPEAL, TO PSYCHE, IMAGERY, SYNTAX AND VARIED FORMS
AUTHORS, SENSES, CRITICS
LESS TRADITIONAL AND MORE SUBJECTIVE
NONE
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Parallel Movement to Modernism
The Harlem Reinassence
The Great Depression
WW II
Post-Modernism
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HISTORICAL EVENTS THAT SHAPED MODERNISM
WORLD WARS AND GREAT DEPRESSION
ECONOMIC BONANZA AND INDUSTRIALIZATION
LITERARY ROMANTICISM AND REALISM
INDEPENDENCE AND CIVIL WAR
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MODERNISM WAS CHARACTERIZED BY TWO FEATURES
Self reliance-Individuality
Style and Subject Matter
Genra and God
Nationalism and economic power
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Modernism started as... and by
Influenced by war ideas by soldiers
Movement influence by art and music by expatriate authors
Movement initiated by african american
None
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What is Modernism?
none
Revolt against puritanism
Revolt againts conservative rules
Boom in Literature
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MAIN GENRES IN MODERNISM
Poetry, fiction and drama
pamphlets and fictions
Short stories and prose
journals, diaries and poems
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THEMES IN AMERICAN MODERNISM
ALIENATION, PRIMITIVISM
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
SELF RELIANCE AND FAITH
GODLESS AND INDIVIDUALITY
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WHAT´S NEW TO LITERATURE IN THIS PERIOD
GENRES
WAYS OF EXPRESSION, NON-TRADITIONAL
STYLES IN WRITING, THEMES AND LITERARY DEVICES
FEELINGS, EMOTIONS THROUGH SELF, REALISM
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Main authors from Modernism are
Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman
Washington Irving, Mark twain
Jean Toomer, Langston hughes
Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pount, T.S. Eliot