Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Modernism period 1914-1945
- ,,COMING OF AGE"
- REVOLUTION
- SOCIAL
- * THE MIDDLE CLASS PROSPERED, AMERICAN FELL IN LOVE WITH OTHER MODERN ENTERTAINMENTS, MOST
PEOPLE WENT TO THE MOVIE ONCE A WEEK, AMERICAN WOMEN, IN PARTICULAR, FELT LIBERATED. BEGAN 1919,
UNDERGROUND SPEAK-EASIER AND NIGHTCLUBS PROLIFERATED, FEATURING JAZZ MUSIC, COCKTAILS, AND
DARING MODES OF DRESS AND DANCE.
- CULTURAL
- THE LARGE CULTURAL WAVE OF MODERNISM, WHICH GRADUALLY EMERGED IN EUROPE AND TE U.S IN THE
EARLY YEARS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. EXPRESSED A SENSE OF MODERN LIFE THROUGH ART AS A SHARP BREAK
FROM THE PAST, AS WELL AS FROM WESTERN CIVILIZATION'S CLASSICAL TRADITIONS.
- ECONOMICAL
- MANY NOW YEARNED FOR A MODERN , URBAN LIFE. NEW FARM MACHINES SUCH AS
PLANTERS, HARVESTERS, AND BINDERS HAD DRASTICALLY REDUCED. CROP PRICES, LIKE
URBAN WORKERS' WAGES, MARKET FORCES HEAVILY INFLUENCED BY BUSINESS INTERESTS,
- LITERATURE
- THE MOST KNOWN POETS AND THEIR NOVELS
- EZRA POUND (1885-1972)
- ,,A FEW DON'TS OF AN IMAGISTE"
- ,, THE CANTOS"
- F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940)
- ,, THIS SIDE OF PARADISE'' 1940
- ,,THE GREAT GATSBY'' 1925
- ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961)
- ,, THE SUN ALSO RISES'' 1926
- ,, THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA''
1952
- WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962)
- ,,THE SOUND AND THE FURY''
- ,, A ROSE FOR EMILY''