Since 1865, American society has changed immensely. During the 1860s, the Civil War was taking place, and America was still fighting itself to abolish slavery. Young women rarely got an education and had arranged marriages, young men often had to work full time jobs when they were still at home and many went to fight in the war. Now, young men and women are on social media and driving cars around with a lot more freedom. Literature has also changed considerably. The period of 1865-1914 was called The Gilded Age. The period of 1914-1945 was called modernism and from 1945 until present day is often referred to as postmodernism. There were many societal, cultural, and historical changes that were explored and represented through literature during
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Writers from this period, 1914-1945, are often referred to as modernist writers because the literature of the time often reflected the nation’s many attempts to come to terms with modernity. After WWI ended, the roaring 20s took place which was a period of many social changes. Women finally gained the right to vote and African American presence in the north became more prominent. The Harlem Renaissance is an effect of this. It took place in New York and was a place where black Americans could enjoy life. Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston are two important writers of the Harlem Renaissance. The roaring 20s brought about a lot of spending and use of credit because people valued their life based on their belongings and how much they could buy. The amount of stocks bought on margin along with other factors led to the stock market crash of 1929. This set the nation into a depression. The 1930s can be characterized as the Great Depression. Literature during the Great Depression provided a much needed escape from everyday life for many Americans. Overall, modernist writers often experimented with new literary forms and expressions. Stories often had unreliable narrators, unlike the realism era. Some writers celebrated the new times and wrote happily about the more modern United States, other authors were upset and made their opinions heard. Though people had varying opinions on modernist writing, most believed that …show more content…
It became more ______, meaning that authors began to reject any sort of meaning, or they had several meanings for one thing. This way a single work of literature could represent an entire people. Postmodernism works, (1945-present), disputed, mocked, and rejected modernist literature. Some writers felt that social reality was becoming too unstable to use as an anchor for their narratives leading to more self expression in literature. In the 1960s, confessional poetry became much more popular. In it, authors often used personal pronouns such as I and expressed self-expression. Sylvia Plath was an important poet in the confessional poetry literary movement. An example of her work is _______. Since 1945, and still today, culture is affecting literature. Immigration has brought many new ideas that are reshaping the literary landscape, as well as using the idea of self expression to familiarize their own cultures. As well as immgrants, there are also many more African American authors than ever before. With the internet, and meas of translating texts, authors are able to get their works spread all around the world. In the United States, alone, 50,000 novels are published every year. 200,000 novels are published worlwide, each
Writers from this period, 1914-1945, are often referred to as modernist writers because the literature of the time often reflected the nation’s many attempts to come to terms with modernity. After WWI ended, the roaring 20s took place which was a period of many social changes. Women finally gained the right to vote and African American presence in the north became more prominent. The Harlem Renaissance is an effect of this. It took place in New York and was a place where black Americans could enjoy life. Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston are two important writers of the Harlem Renaissance. The roaring 20s brought about a lot of spending and use of credit because people valued their life based on their belongings and how much they could buy. The amount of stocks bought on margin along with other factors led to the stock market crash of 1929. This set the nation into a depression. The 1930s can be characterized as the Great Depression. Literature during the Great Depression provided a much needed escape from everyday life for many Americans. Overall, modernist writers often experimented with new literary forms and expressions. Stories often had unreliable narrators, unlike the realism era. Some writers celebrated the new times and wrote happily about the more modern United States, other authors were upset and made their opinions heard. Though people had varying opinions on modernist writing, most believed that …show more content…
It became more ______, meaning that authors began to reject any sort of meaning, or they had several meanings for one thing. This way a single work of literature could represent an entire people. Postmodernism works, (1945-present), disputed, mocked, and rejected modernist literature. Some writers felt that social reality was becoming too unstable to use as an anchor for their narratives leading to more self expression in literature. In the 1960s, confessional poetry became much more popular. In it, authors often used personal pronouns such as I and expressed self-expression. Sylvia Plath was an important poet in the confessional poetry literary movement. An example of her work is _______. Since 1945, and still today, culture is affecting literature. Immigration has brought many new ideas that are reshaping the literary landscape, as well as using the idea of self expression to familiarize their own cultures. As well as immgrants, there are also many more African American authors than ever before. With the internet, and meas of translating texts, authors are able to get their works spread all around the world. In the United States, alone, 50,000 novels are published every year. 200,000 novels are published worlwide, each