Literary Terms and Periods of American Literature美国文学的文学术语与时期.pptVIP

Modern ( 1915-1939 ) Modernism- a variety of twentieth-century artistic movements that shared a desire to break from the past. T.S. Elliot and Ezra Pound defined modern writing with their diction and what they chose to write about. Poetry is mostly modern writing. The Modern Period of American Literature 1915 - 1939 The modern era was a time of great changes for the United States. WWI, the Great Depression, and WWII. People of this era made immense technological advances. Change was the norm of the time as there was new advances in technology. No literary genre typified the modern period