Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
(1915-1945)
Objectives:
Study the backgrounds of America and the Western countries between the two
world wars ;
Study the major genres and literary experiments in poetry, novel, drama etc.
Study the major features of modernism;
Compare the main features of realism with modernism;
Teaching Procedure:
I. Backgrounds
Introduce the backgrounds of America and the Western countries between the two
World Wars;
Introduce the effect of the two wars on the people , esp. on the intellectuals;
Introduce briefly Eloit’s The Waste land;
Introduce briefly the features of modernism;
Introduce briefly the imagism, Lost Generation, the Left-wing Literature, and the
Southern Literature.
Reference:
The differnce among the several traditions to which the poets and novelists writers
more or less adhere: Frost, Stevens, Crane, a post-Emersonian romantic tradition of
vatic seeing and saying; Pound and Eliot, as high modernists who invoked a post-
Arnoldian tradition of cultural high seriousness and purpose; Stein, H.D. and Moore
as experimentalists interested in remaking poetry by reinventing the female poet;
Williams and Hughes, as poets in the Whitmanic tradition, writing in an "American"
idiom, stripping down the language to its "essential" character and qualities; Brown
and McKay exploring the vernacular idioms of a rural America then (1920s and 30s)
in economic and demographic decline.
Note:
http://www.modernism.com/hemfaq.htm