Modernism (Authors, Genres, and Conventions)

The first characteristic associated with modernism.

Another genre that came from Modernism.

The first rule and notably the most important rule that was broken during the modernist time period.

Told the story of a black woman’s three marriages in Their Eyes Were Watching God

In 1922 Joyce published his masterpiece and the single greatest work of Modernism.

Early novels The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms articulated the disillusionment of the Lost Generation.

Uses subtly irregular syntax and grammar to help convey his main character's gradual descent into madness.

Many old genres were also still popular during this time period like

Was attempted to be banned multiple times by school teachers between 1960-2000

The book was immediately banned in England and the United States for blasphemy and obscenity.

Great ways that people entertained themselves without technology.

Skewered the American Dream in The Great Gatsby

One genre that came out during the Modernism time period.

The book was claimed as being “pro-communist and containing explicit sexual matter.”

Pioneered by writers like Dorothy Richardson, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf.

The classic dystopian novel.

Told hopeful stories of the American frontier, set mostly on the Great Plains

Radically changed perception of reality.

Exposed and attacked American racism in Native Son

A narrative style that tries to capture a character's thought process in a realistic way.

"Artists of the day who were influenced by contemporary European art movements like Dadaism and Futurism"

Used subtly irregular syntax and grammar to help convey gradual descent into madness as a stream of consciousness.