PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING SHORT QUESTIONS.

Please answer the following short questions.

Please answer the following short questions.

Identify five common characteristics and/or themes found in modern literature?

Modernist literature is the literary expression of the trends of modernity, especially the high modernism. art and modernist literature usually revolved around the idea of individualism, distrust of institutions (government, religion), and disbelief of any absolute truth. (Joyce's 1990)

What were three factors leading to the rise of Modernism?

Modernist principles have shaped the city's construction since the early twentieth century. Many authors establish a connection between the modernist discourse in planning practice and the emergence of the Fordist paradigm.

"The Dead" is in part concerned with various misfires in communication among the characters. Briefly explain one important scene where this happens and why it is important to the story as a work of Modernism. (Skipp 1992)

Regarding the war novel specifically, there was a literary explosion in America during the post-World War II era. Some of the best known of the works produced included Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead (1948), Joseph Heller's Catch-22 (1961) and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Slaughterhouse-Five (1969). The Moviegoer (1962), by Southern author Walker Percy, winner of the National Book Award, was his attempt at exploring "the dislocation of man in the modern age."

How does Hemingway define a "true sentence"?

It was wonderful to walk down the long flights of stairs knowing that I'd had good luck working. I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day. But sometimes when I was started on a new story and I could not get going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made.

What is the Lost Generation?

The Lost Generation is a term used to describe a group of American writers who were rebelling against what America had become in the 1900s. At this time, America had become a great place to "get into any area of business." However, the Lost Generation writers felt that America was not a success story because the country lacked a cosmopolitan culture. The solution to this problem was to pack their bags and travel to the cosmopolitan cultures of Europe, like Paris and London. Here she hopes to find literary freedom and a cosmopolitan lifestyle. (Gardner 1991)

American literature underwent a profound change in the post-World War. At this point, American writers are still expected to use the rigid Victorian styles of the 19th century. The writers were above the lost generation, or in addition to American society, not only geographically but also in your writing style and the topics they chose to write. Although they were unhappy with American culture, the writers were instrumental in changing the style of the country of writing, from Victoria to modern times

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