Literature of the 20 th Century

The 20 th Century  World War I / The Great War ( ) World War II ( ) modern technology, inventions  change people’s way of living

World War I  loss of religious faith  Lost Generation

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

American Literature

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

The Roaring Twenties, Jazz Age

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

The Great Gatsby

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

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

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.

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

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

journey of poor farmers from Oaklahoma to California