Writers
The author of The Great Gatsby?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Modernists rejected _____
Traditional values
The common theme of literature was caused by the destruction and disillusionment of WWI.
Fragmentation
The war that triggered the modernist movement?
World War I
The author of Ulysses?
James Joyce
The year that women gained the right to vote
1919
Three Tenets of _____
Imagism
Type of music that stemmed from modernist movement
Jazz
Female writer whose writings were seen as radical and were poorly recieved
Gertrude Stein
The word describing the rejection of religious and moral principles?
Nihilism
The literary style where a character's thoughts, feelings, and actions are depicted in a continuous flow?
Stream of consciousness
The term coined for the group of writers, poets, and musicians in Paris during the 1920s?
"The Lost Generation"
The modernist poet credited with helping form the Imagist movement?
Ezra Pound
Name three themes of modernism
Disillusionment, confusion, isolation, loss of faith, rebellion, fragmentation, search for truth and happiness, paralysis, decay and destruction
Novels can be used as a model for social change
Modernist Literary Theory
The type of art aimed to convey a heightened sense of feelings and emotions
Expressionism
American poet whose poetry is written in free-verse with no rhyme or pattern
E.E. Cummings
Provide one characteristic of impressionist art
light brush strokes, bright display, and relative color
Name a modernist piece of work
The Great Gatsby, The Cantos, The Waste Land ,The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Ulysses, Make it New, Mrs. Dalloway
_____ forced culture to redefine itself constantly and increased the pace of life
Technological innovations/scientific discoveries