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1920s- The Lost Generation

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What was happening in the 1920s?

http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/hpolscrv/jbolhofer.html

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/141760/Hart-Crane

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/348402/Lost-Generation

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/amliteuro/lostgen.html

http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Lost_Generation.html

http://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/generation-gaps/lost-generation.htm

http://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/generation-gaps/lost-generation1.htm

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  • World War I had ended with damaging aftermaths
  • The world was changing at rapid pace
  • Transportation means such as the automobile were becoming popular
  • The first airplane flight took place
  • Sigmund Freud released "The Interpretation of Dreams"
  • Immigrants were pouring into the United States
  • Jobs were becoming more distinct

"Retrospect: 1920s, A Lost Generation [Earnest's Intro]"

  • Ernest Hemingway

What is "The Lost Generation"?

- his novel "The Sun Also Rises" helped popularize the term "The Lost Generation"

- leader of expatriates who fled to Paris

- his protagonists are honest men who lose hope in the society

Characteristics of "The Lost Generation"

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald

- nomadicity

  • John Dos Passos

People flocked to cities and to Europe

- self-indulgence

- spirit of the Jazz Age

- in "The Side of Paradise" he captures the futility of a generation tormented by the war and that lacks belief

- In "The Great Gatsby,

moralities of the wealthy are represented

Generation skeptical of authority

- tried to assimilate European culture

- conservative political views

- "Three Soldiers" was the first major anti-war novel of the time

How did the name appear?

The experience of World War I changed the world forever. With its outburst came the development of new technology and fighting methods that intensified the effects of war, leading to casualties of around 37 million. This had a long-lasting effect on the following generations, who witnessed and felt the profound impact of the terrifying war. No longer wishing to adhere to classical principles of humanity, they sought to rebel against the beliefs of their elders. This post-war generation thus became known as "The Lost Generation".

- aimlessness

- self-sufficiency

American writers felt lost

  • Hart Crane

Elders no longer moral guideposts

  • E. E. Cummings

- disillusionment

- lyrics of visionary intensity

- celebrated richness of life

- believed in the creative power of the man uniting present and past

- his poetry set new boundaries of form

- play on spelling and syntax

- new poetry techniques and structures

- moral loss

Governments ignoring their heroes

- independence

People affected by horrors of the battle

Increased competition for jobs

It is believed that while in France, Gertrude Stein, an American poet and art collector, heard her auto-mechanic referring to his young workers as "une generation perdue", due to their poor repair skills. In a conversation with Hemingway, she uses this phrase to describe the people of the 1920s who rejected the values of the post-war American world. Hemingway made the phrase popular by using it as an epigraph for his first novel, "The Sun Also Rises". Thanks to the popularity of his novel, the term has endured and is now associated with a lifestyle as well as with a famous group of writers from the 1920s.

Leading Figures

- Authors of "The Lost Generation"

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