Notes on Modernism

Question 1

the urban skyline defined by _____ becomes a powerful symbol of american economic power and technological knowhow

Answer 1

skyscrapers

Question 2

Widespread ______ continues to shape the American population

Answer 2

immigration

Question 3

immigration continues to cause concern among traditional ______

Answer 3

white elites

Question 4

_____, Congress enacts exclusionary legislation to restrict immigration; that legislation, and the onset of _________ will slow the tide of immigration for many years

Answer 4

1924, the Great Depression

Question 5

Closing of _______ encourages overseas expansion of American power

Answer 5

Frontier

Question 6

continuous intervention in ________, ______

Answer 6

Latin America, Pacific territories

Question 7

late entry (_____) of US into ________ reverses more than a century of non-intervention into European affairs

Answer 7

1917, World War I

Question 8

many inventions of the late nineteenth century (_______, ________, __________) become widely disseminated ________ during this era

Answer 8

automobile, phonograph, motion pictures, “Facts of life”

Question 9

_________ system of assembly line manufacture makes cars affordable for the middle class

Answer 9

Henry Ford

Question 10

key element in the growth of the new consumer economy–growth of inexpensive manufactured goods and more consumer credit erode ______ ideas of _______ and ______

Answer 10

puritan, thrift, restraint

Question 11

new economy encourages use of consumer goods as means of self-definition: ______ and ______ rather than _____

Answer 11

style, taste, inner character

Question 12

new culture industry of _____, _______, and ______ both reflect and encourage this trend

Answer 12

movies, popular music, slick magazines

Question 13

_____ artists will take a complex attitude toward these trends

Answer 13

modern

Question 14

________ has found the dynamo of an inexplicable force; what would he have thought of the new physics, pioneered by _____, ____, and others, which shattered the idea of an ordered _______ world and suggested that time and space were relative phenomenon

Answer 14

Henry Adams, Einstein, Bohr, Newtonian

Question 15

new science is counter intuitive; strikes another blow world view of ____________that had been eroding since the early nineteenth century

Answer 15

orthodox Christianity

Question 16

economic opportunities opened by the war encourage northward migration of southern blacks (________); many northern cities acquire large black enclaves that serve as centers of cultural production (rise of ______, the_________)

Answer 16

the Great Migration, jazz, Harlem Renaissance

Question 17

many blacks attracted to the _____________ support of antiracist causes (the ________)

Answer 17

Communist Party’s, Scottsboro Boys

Question 18

Women gain the vote in ______

Answer 18

1920

Question 19

figure of the ______ able to engage in traditional male pursuits (_______, ________, _________)

Answer 19

smoking, drinking, more relaxed sexuality

Question 20

Flapper is a key symbol of new, more permissive society of the postwar world, a society paradoxically enabled by the restriction of the sale of alcoholic beverages known as _________; law leads to widespread violation, growth of __________; new culturally important figure of the _____

Answer 20

Prohibition, organized crime, gangster

Question 21

Literature of this period is generally designated as ______ or ______

Answer 21

modern, modernist

Question 22

term’s sense, like that of ________ is complex, but is principally is used in two ways

Answer 22

Realism

Question 23

different periodization: some date the beginnings of Modernism from the _____ but the term most commonly used to designate art and literature between he two world wars (______-______)

Answer 23

1890s, 1914-1939

Question 24

as a thematic designation referring to a particular sort of literature; body of work that represents a particular response to the culture of ________

Answer 24

urbanized capitalism

Question 25

an emphasis on ____, _____, and _______ in terms of both theme and style

Answer 25

chaos, disorder, fragmentation

Question 26

a skepticism as to the possibility to objective, verifiable knowledge, and a concomitant emphasis on ______ and limited ______

Answer 26

subjectivity, point of view

Question 27

a related emphasis on the vicissitudes of individual psychology, especially influenced by the psychological theories of ________

Answer 27

Sigmund freud

Question 28

a self-conscious reflexivity, which calls attention to the text’s status as a constructed work of art, and that often reflects on the activity of ________

Answer 28

storytelling

Question 29

an abandonment of traditional ideas of ____, _______ and _______, and an embrace of ______, ________, _______ and ______

Answer 29

order, chronology, logic, dream, hallucination, image, myth

Question 30

we talk about Modernist painting (_____, ______) Modernist music (______, ________), and a host of allied areas in the arts

Answer 30

Picasso, Braque, Stravinsky, Schoenberg

Question 31

It is also a self-consciously international phenomenon–every country has its modernists, and these artists frequently abandon their countries of origin, seeking an atmosphere more conducive to their art–in other words, they become ______

Answer 31

expatriates