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1 2 + 2 + Modernism

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

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

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

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

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

7 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

8 2 + 2 + Modernism Add a Footer

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