CH. 6: CONTEMPORARY PERIOD IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Question 1

Contemporary Period

Answer 1

[begins at the end of WW2]

Question 2

Modernists’ Beliefs

Answer 2

the characters thoughts mattered more than the plot / brought us deeper into the human mind/passages are more choppy or fragmented /

Question 3

Contemporary Writers

Answer 3

• following the war struggled to reconcile the irrational and violent actions taken by humans / confronting the absolute and unquestioned patriotism, which continued in America after ww2
• the world was socially oppressive and many writers were disturbed by this

Question 4

Impact of WW2

Answer 4

• they’d heightened our awareness that truth is merely a product of human perception/reality is what we make of it
• began to explore human consciousness as a primary mode of existence