1. Chapter 12. The Thirties
American literature
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2. The Great Depression (1929-late 1930)
The Thirties
Background
The Great Depression (1929-late 1930)
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place during the 1930s. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; The Great Depression had devastating effects in countries both rich and poor. Personal income, tax revenue, profits and prices dropped, while international trade plunged by more than 50%. Unemployment in the U.S. rose to 25% and in some countries rose as high as 33%.

3. The Great Depression (1929-late 1930)
The Thirties
Background
The Great Depression (1929-late 1930)
Marxist
Karl Marx saw recession and depression as unavoidable under free-market capitalism as there are no restrictions on accumulations of capital other than the market itself.

4. Traits of the literatures in the thirties_James Farrel
Economic poverty and spiritual poverty -Documentary style
+ Stream of consicousness
2. “Documentary” style
-Readers feel as if they were reading true stories
3. Major literatures- A world I never made

5. Traits of the literatures in the thirties_
John SteinBeck
Traits of the literatures in the thirties_
In the early thirties ; naturalistic
_The Long Valley(1938)
he comebines a naturalistic way of looking at things with a deep sympathy for people.
In his novel, he wants to appear on the evils of Capitalism.

6. <The Grapes of Wrath(1939)>
The Thirties
John SteinBeck
<The Grapes of Wrath(1939)>

7. <The Grapes of Wrath(1939)>
The Thirties
John SteinBeck
<The Grapes of Wrath(1939)>

8. <The Grapes of Wrath(1939)>
The Thirties
John SteinBeck
<The Grapes of Wrath(1939)>
Story lines ; The Joads family leaves Oklahoma because of the great ‘dust bowl’ disaster – Steinbeck descripted of social injustice and daily heroism of ordinary people. To some critics, Sentimentalism in various forms is seen as a weakness of many of Steinbeck’s novel.

9. <East of Eden(1952) John SteinBeck
The Thirties
John SteinBeck
<East of Eden(1952)
Story lines ; The Joads family leaves Oklahoma because of the great ‘dust bowl’ disaster – Steinbeck descripted of social injustice and daily heroism of ordinary people. To some critics, Sentimentalism in various forms is seen as a weakness of many of Steinbeck’s novel.

10. <Tropic of cancer)>
The Thirties
Henry Miller
<Tropic of cancer)>
He is unhappy with traditional novel. He was much more of a rebel. His novel is Tropic of cancer (Paris, 1934).
He hated America, and lived in Paris for 9years. During that time , he met with Transcendentalists writing on surrealism.

11. <Tropic of cancer>
The Thirties
Henry Miller
<Tropic of cancer>
Set in France (primarily Paris) during the late 1920s and early 1930s, Tropic of Cancer centers on Miller's life as a struggling writer. Late in the novel, Miller explains his artistic approach to writing the book itself,
Combining autobiography and fiction, some chapters follow a narrative of some kind and refer to Miller's actual friends, colleagues, and workplaces; others are written as stream-of-consciousness reflections

12. The stream of conciousness
The Thirties
The stream of conciousness
stream of consciousness, also known as interior monologue, is a narrative mode or device that depicts the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind. The term was coined by William James in 1890 in his The Principles of Psychology, and in 1918 May Sinclair first applied the term stream of consciousness, in a literary context