Oposiciones OPOSICIONES 2023 (UNIT 55. LOST GENERATION) FlashCards sobre UNIT 55, criado por Miriam González Cano em 08-02-2022.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, USA entered...
Progressist president:
WWI dates
1920s were known as...
Great Depression started in...
Lost Generation refers to...
The term "lost" makes reference to...
Characteristics of the Lost Generation:
Scott Fitzgerald was born in...
Scott Fitzgerald attended...
Fitzgerald fell in love with...
Fitzgerald's wols:
It is an autobiographical novel where the hero represents the hero of the lost generation. This novel was about a young soldier with his same experience in life, whose own egotism had prevented his finding happiness.
The Great Gatsby was published in...
The main theme of the novel is the clash between reality and idealism. Its style is light and clear, with many details, and including dialogues and flashbacks.
Tender is the night was published in...
It is a complex study of the spiritual depletion of a psychiatrist, who married a wealthy former patient.
John Steinbeck was born in...
Steinbeck attended...
Steinbeck's works:
The novel, which portrays a group of “paisanos” after the end of WWI, was his first critical and commercial success.
The Grapes of Wrath was published in...
Being regarded as authentic material from the Depression, this novel represented a national tragedy which shocked the nation.
Steinbeck was a war correspondent in...
Steinbeck's prze:
Ernest Hemingway was born in...
Hemingway was volunteer in...
Hemingway's works:
It portrays a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to Spain in order to see the “Festival of San Fermín”.
It focuses on a tragic wartime love affair between an ambulance driver and a nurse, who escape to Switzerland during the war.
The characters are young Americans living in Paris, who are either expatriates or had fought in the war, and now are considered to be useless.
Hemingway was a correspondent in...
It is about an American volunteer in a Republican guerrilla unit during the civil war.
The old man and the sea was published in...
Main themes in "The old man and the sea"
William Faulkner was born in...
Faulkner's works:
It was a perfect portray of the sense of isolation experienced by soldiers returning from WWI to a civilian world of which they seemed no longer a part.
satirical work based on artist and art lovers in New Orleans, and it is considered his weakest novel.
an imaginary area in Mississippi with a colourful history and a richly varied population which was to be used as the setting for Faulkner's novels and stories
Primary theme in Faulkner's novels:
It tells the economic decline of a family, recounted from four different perspectives: from the three brothers and from the black servant.
a story about the journey of a family to bury their mother
a fable of the old South which is told backwards
It presented his Yoknapatawpha legend as a whole, including extracts from his novels in chronological order
