1. Literature of the 20 th Century

2. The 20 th Century  World War I / The Great War (1914-1918) World War II (1939-1945) modern technology, inventions  change people’s way of living

3. World War I  loss of religious faith  Lost Generation

4. Literature of the 20 th Century  world literature produced during the 20 th century  Modern Literature Postmodern Literature

5. American Literature

6.  novel  F. Scott Fitzgerald  post-war writer  The Great Gatsby  Jazz Age, The Roaring Twenties

7. The Roaring Twenties, Jazz Age

9. The Great Gatsby  concerns a young and mysterious millionaire, Jay Gatsby  American Dream  success

10. The Great Gatsby

11. American Literature  Ernest Hemingway  writer, journalist  short stories, novels, other literary genres  economical writing style had a strong influence on the 20 th century fiction

12. Ernest Hemingway  novel  A Farewell to Arms The Sun Also Rises The Old Man and the Sea  Nobel Prize, 1954

13. A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms was based on Hemingway’s experience while being an ambulance driver for the Red Cross in Italy during the World War I.

14. American Literature  John Steinbeck  fiction  simple writing style  the struggle of poor working-class people

15. John Stienbeck  The Grapes of Wrath  story of the Joad family  their journey from Okalahoma to California  in search of a better life during the Great Depression

16. journey of poor farmers from Oaklahoma to California