“The Great War”

1914-1939

World War I and the Great Depression

I-OP2: Independence and Individualism, Optimism, Opportunity

Movement in the arts and literature calling for bold experimentation and complete rejection of traditional themes and styles

A belief in progress, that life will only get better (this was questioned in the Modernist era)

championed the ideal of the independent, self-reliant person during the Romantic era (questioned during Modernist era)

Marxism and psychoanalysis

Socialist beliefs of Karl Marx that powered the Russian Revolution in 1917

The founder of this theory was Sigmund Freud

a narrative style influenced by psychoanalysis in which a character’s perceptions and memories are told moment-by-moment

A term coined by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The constitutional ban of manufacture and sale of alchohol

bootleggers, speak-easys, the short-skirted flapper, new rythms of jazz, and the gangster

Gained the right to vote in 1920 and created a presence in literature and artistic circles

Many artists and writers–including F.

Scott Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot, and e.e. cummings, abandoned America for life in France

Developed a new kind of hero in literature

A man of action who has a code of honor, but is disilussioned with the world he lives in.

The symbolists and the imagists’ styles

Used traditional style and form with unique poetic voice. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.”

A movement of Africna American artists, musicians, and literature

spirituals, jazz, blues, and the street talk of the ghettos