The Modernist Canon
This French poet, along with later French Symbolists, is considered an important influence on Modernist poetry.
Who is Charles Baudelaire?
This venue was the home to Dada in Zurich.
What is the Cabaret Voltaire?
This entertainer lived in Paris most of her life.
Who is Josephine Baker?
This "Unreal City" is referenced a few times in The Waste Land.
What is London?
On this date, according to Virginia Woolf, "human nature changed."
What is "On or about December 1910..."?
Until the 1980's, these two women were the only women in the Modernist canon.
Who are Virginial Woolf and Gertrude Stein? (must have both correct!)
This Parisian bookstore was a major center of modernist literary life.
What is Shakespeare and Company?
This man lived in Paris in the mid-twenties and wrote back home to enthuse over the visibility of Black culture there?
Who is Langston Huges?
The "Fire Sermon" is a section of the Waste Land that refers to this religion.
What is Buddhism?
The Armory Show introduced America to Modern Art in this year.
What is 1913?
While we know that certain areas like theater "lag" in terms of modernism, most textbooks and surveys of Modernism end on this year.
What is 1939?
The International Exhibit of Modern Art in 1913 is more commonly referred to by this name.
What is the Armory Show?
Who is Jean Toomer?
Who is Cleopatra?
This year is considered the annus mirablilis of modernism.
What is 1922?
These exhibitions were housed in a specially made building in Vienna as a response to the conservative Kunstlerhaus,
What are the Secessionist Exhibitions?
While actively engaged with the Harlem Renaissance, this author's work was often criticized for her absence of an overt political agenda.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
Eliot references this opera by Wagner.
What is Tristan and Isolde?
Des Imagistes, the first anthology of Imagist poems, was published in this year.
What is 1914.
This inter-bellum cultural phenomenon consisted of the movement of large numbers of African Americans from the deep south to northern cities.
What is the Great Migration?
Ezra Pound said that this section of the poem (IV) was absolutely essential to the poem.
What is "Death by Water"?
All of James Joyce's Ulysses occurs on this day.
What is June 16, 1904?