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2 + 2 + Modernism 1910-1940

Historical Influences + 2 Historical Influences WW, The Jazz Age and The Great Depression Add a Footer

Key Characteristics Experimental symbolism (green light!) Imagery understatement irony Add a Footer

Key Characteristics experimental alienated individuals “The Lost Generation” Add a Footer

Harlem Renaissance 1920’s Great Migration Harlem= cultural center Celebrate Black culture and experience Add a Footer

Title Famous Novelists Famous Poets Zora Neal Hurston Langston Hughes Claude McKay Countee Cullen Add a Footer

Title Famous Novelists Famous Poets John Steinbeck F. Scott Fitzgerald (ex- patriate) Ernest Hemingway (ex- patriate) Robert Frost T.S. Eliot William Carlos Williams ee cummings Add a Footer

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