The modern temper
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- what are four events that gave topics for writers?
- WWI, the jazz age(roaring 20s), depression, WWII
- what makes a short story?
- - a lot less charachters (1-2) - single plot - takes place in a much shorter time frame
- World War I
- - the war to end all wars - trench warfare - mustard gas
- Roaring 20s
- -teens broke all the laws - drinking, smoking, driving fast, innapropriate dress(short hair) - speakeasys and bathtub gin -jitterbug
- The Depression
- - long lines for food - hoover camps (pooled food, fire, and money - people traveling to find jobs - people moved west (dust bowl- worst frought)
- World War II
- - Pearl Harbor (brought us into war) - D-day - we dropped bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki - Hitler
- big 4 writers
- - Ernest Hemmingway - William Faulkner - F. Scott Fitsgerald - John Steinbeck - (second greatest literary period)
- General Literary charachteristics of the time:
- - free verse and other innovative poetic forms - public poetic readings - more complex plot development - magazines gave huge marks for writers
- wanted to bea man
- Willa cather (she lived through her male main characters)
- moved from virginia (building and pioneering) to Nebraska (artists and muscicians)
- Willa Cather - appreciated culture
- most of her stories were about frontier live, WWI
- Willa Cather
- nickname was William
- willa cather
- what was willa cathers type of writing?
- novels, short stpries, poems
- whose most famous novel was Antonia and Oh Pioneers
- Willa Cather
- who was a realist and wrote about the country but never romantisized the country?
- Willa Cather
- who had very strong imagery and harsh messages
- Katherine Anne Porter
- Katherine Anne Porters life:
- - grew up in Texas - she came from a family that belived in education for women - she was a silent actress - became a hack writer (same plot/ new characters) - lived a long life (90 yrs) - sharp as a tack old lady
- who didnt write a lot because they were super critical and used a lot of good imagery
- katherine anne porter
- who was the spokesman of the jazz age
- f scott fitzgerald
- whose stories all had the settings of the roaring 20s
- f scott fitzgerald
- whose most famous novel was the great gatsby
- f scott fitzgerald
- ernest hemmingway early life
- - parents respectable - first gun at 10 - clean safe neighborhood - dad killed himself
- ernest hemmingways wwii experiences
- - tried to joing the army - went to italy - had life altering experiences - left him with a fascination of danger and death
- who had a facination with danger and death?
- ernest hemmingway
- who was a macho man?
- ernest hemmingway
- whose most famous novels were a farewell to arms, for whom the bell tolls, and the old man and the sea
- ernest hemmingway
- what was ernests most famous novel
- the old man and the sea
- who killed themselves with a rifle?
- ernest hemminway
- existentialism
- man is what he makes of himself, he is not predestined by god, society, or biology, man has free will, he is loathsome if he chooses to or lets outside forces determine him
- where did the idea of existentialism come from?
- WWII, germany, hitler, france
- who are some atheistic existenitalists
- camus, sartre, kafta
- who was most famous for writing metamorphosis?
- kafta (bug)
- in order to be somebody you have to do something you cannot blame someone else
- existentialist belief
- atheistic exitentialism
- there was a god but he must have died because he wouldnt let all of these wars come about
- theistic existentialism
- there is a god but you hve to read out to the god to help you
- what are some strong images from the story "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall?"
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- according to existential philosophy:what is man? what things do not determine him? what does or should determine him? when is man contemptible?
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- why is the story babylon revisited semi autobigraphical
- it was semi autobiographical becase charlie and f scott both lost thier wife and daughters because of poor choices they made when drinking. and they both live in the roaring 20s.
- how is the wagner matinee different from willa cathers other stories?
- it was different because it was not about fronteir lige or wwii
- what is contemptible to the existentialsit about the lifestyle of the couple in "hills like white elephants" and even more so about the behavior of the woman?
- the man and woman just drink all the time and do not do anythign immportant and the woman says she will do whatever to make the man happy