Modernism

Question 1

What is modernism?

Answer 1

art, literature, and ideas

an intentional rejection from tradition

Question 2

What is modernism not?

Answer 2

Definable; coherent

Question 3

List key characteristics of modernism style

Answer 3

Constructed ot of fragments (no beginning or end)
frusturating reading
experimental
mostly short stories and poems
seeks to capture confusion of modern life
artistic way to create/ search for meaning

Question 4

Why was World War One significant to Modernism?

Answer 4

loss of belief in absolutes
existentalism: there is no meaning
consumerism replaces idealism
attempt to reject the failed world

Question 5

What were unprecedented socia, and technological changes?

Answer 5

automobiles
radio and television
(homogenization: introduction to mass culture)
Mass Immigration
The Great Migration
 Jass Age (The Roaring 20's)
Einstein and Freud

Question 6

List 3 major expatriate authors

Answer 6

Ernest Hemmingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gertrude Stein

Question 7

What did Fitzgerald emphasis

Answer 7

consumerism replaces idealism

Roaring 20’s

Question 8

What is Gertrude Stein believe?

Answer 8

we are a lost generation

Question 9

individual vs. scoiety

Answer 9

mass culture
isolation in a crowd
globalization

Question 10

knowledge

Answer 10

phycology

existensialism:purpose to our lifes.

Question 11

Nature

Answer 11

No boundaries
Industrialization
Uncertainty of human nature

Question 12

American Dream

Answer 12

Focus on weak
less community minded
Modern dream: success and celeberty
Consumerism replaces idealism

Question 13

What replaces Idealism

Answer 13

CONSUMERISM

Question 14

When was modernism?

Answer 14

1915-1955