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An Overview of Literature Books, magazines, and newspapers were how most people became aware of current events Many novels made people step back and look upon their wrong-doings List of impacting novels on society: The Waste Land, The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, Strange Interlude, and The New Negro The Harlem Renaissance paved a way for African American writers like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and W. E. B. Du Bois
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The Lost Generation of AmericaBy: Kevin Randle
The Formation of Modern American Mass Culture
Many of the defining books and movies of modern American culture emerged during the 1920s
The materialism sparked by the Roaring Twenties left many intellectuals empty
The 1920’s was a decade characterized by themes of modernism
Themes of sexuality, technology, and social progress were also prominent during these times
An Overview of LiteratureBooks, magazines, and newspapers were how most people became
aware of current events
Many novels made people step back and look upon their wrong-doings
List of impacting novels on society: The Waste Land, The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, Strange Interlude, and The New Negro
The Harlem Renaissance paved a way for African American writers like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and W. E. B. Du Bois
Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967)One of the earliest innovators of the
then-new literary art form called jazz poetry
Known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America
Most American poets were turning inward, while Hughes was turning outward staying to his own personal experiences (An actual story)
He wrote novels, short stories and plays, as well as poetry, and is also known for his engagement with the world of jazz and the influence it had on his writing
Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)Served in World War 1 as an
ambulance driver
Worked in journalism before publishing his story collection In Our Time
Most outstanding novel was The Old Man and the Sea
liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters - tough, at times primitive people whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society
“Any man’s life, told truly, is a novel.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)Placed on academic probation, and, in
1917, he dropped out of school to join the U.S. Army
The publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, rejected the novel, The Romantic Egotist
The Great Gatsby was published in 1925
Progressed steadily into alcoholism and suffered prolonged bouts of writer's block
F. Scott Fitzgerald died believing himself a failure
Sex Appeal (1920’s - 1930’s)
Women craved for Rudolph Valentino
Men craved for Mary Pickford
Flapper Girl
Walt Disney (1901 - 1966)
Creator of Disneyland
Creator/Voice actor of the famous cartoon character Mickey Mouse
Teacher said he wasn’t creative
Great studio success
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