Reality is definitely questioned in Modernism, the time between wars, the time of so many different movements. I think what I like best about it is the need for expression in a new way, a thousand different ways to kill Shakespeare, Gertrude Stein called Hemingway: Yellow, and went on to call her own time, The Lost Generation, meaning possibly that there is no framework to attach to any certain soul through their art and life, no boundaries.
Major parts of the world had just sustained The Industrial Revolution, pushing so many into becoming the earliest part of consumer driven society, and so these writers and artists were representing the change in attitude, lifestyle, and creative intention. What seems the most obviously wrong about this time frame, was anti-Semitism. It's hard to really know all the greatness of Ezra Pound, running journals, and encouraging so many writers, especially H.D. and knowing his views of hating Jews.
Publishing houses, universities, and scientists and psychologists were opening up people's minds like never before, but everyone was just becoming great, so the fame was never really imprinted to make anyone get glory. I would even go so far as to say, this time frame is when Americans became Liberals as we know it today, women got the right to vote, and music and dance exploded, and Conservatives were blamed for the Great Depression. I've read and studied a lot of these works from all over the world, and I'd say also with The Lost Generation, many people lost their religion.
Major parts of the world had just sustained The Industrial Revolution, pushing so many into becoming the earliest part of consumer driven society, and so these writers and artists were representing the change in attitude, lifestyle, and creative intention. What seems the most obviously wrong about this time frame, was anti-Semitism. It's hard to really know all the greatness of Ezra Pound, running journals, and encouraging so many writers, especially H.D. and knowing his views of hating Jews.
Publishing houses, universities, and scientists and psychologists were opening up people's minds like never before, but everyone was just becoming great, so the fame was never really imprinted to make anyone get glory. I would even go so far as to say, this time frame is when Americans became Liberals as we know it today, women got the right to vote, and music and dance exploded, and Conservatives were blamed for the Great Depression. I've read and studied a lot of these works from all over the world, and I'd say also with The Lost Generation, many people lost their religion.
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