Intro to Modernism

Modernity and Modernism, 1900–1945 (Volume F)

Modernization

“Peaceful Coexistence”

World War I

Communist Russia

Treaty of Versailles

Nazis

The Final Solution

Great Depression

World War II

Modernism

• “crisis of reason”

• break with literary conventions

• Charles Darwin

• Karl Marx

• Friedrich Nietzsche

• Sigmund Freud

• mobility

Scientific Advances

Poets

Novelists

Theater

Asia

Harlem Renaissance and Negritude

The World, 1913

Which event had arguably the greatest impact on the early twentieth century?

a. the Russian Revolution of 1917b. the Great Depressionc. the Second World Ward. the First World War

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The League of Nations was founded as part of what treaty?

a. the Treaty of Versaillesb. the Armistice Treatyc. the Treaty of Utrechtd. the Treaty of the League of Nations

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Modernist artists depended primarily on which of the following?

a. reasonb. experimentationc. scienced. tradition

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Fiction that includes references to itself is called: __________ .

a. metafictionb. hyperfictionc. stream of consciousness fictiond. experiential fiction

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