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Literature of the 20th Century

The 20th Century

World War I / The Great War (1914-1918)

World War II (1939-1945)modern technology, inventions

change people’s way of living

World War I

loss of religious faith Lost Generation

Literature of the 20th Century

world literature produced during

the 20th century

Modern Literature Postmodern Literature

American Literature

American Literature

novel

F. Scott Fitzgerald

post-war writer

The Great Gatsby

Jazz Age, The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties, Jazz Age

The Roaring Twenties, Jazz Age

The Great Gatsby

concerns a young and mysterious millionaire,

Jay Gatsby

American Dream

success

The Great Gatsby

American Literature

Ernest Hemingway

writer, journalist

short stories, novels, other literary genres

economical writing style had a strong influence on

the 20th century fiction

Ernest Hemingway

novel

A Farewell to ArmsThe Sun Also Rises

The Old Man and the Sea

Nobel Prize, 1954

A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms wasbased on Hemingway’s experience while being an ambulance driver forthe Red Cross in Italyduring the World War I.

American Literature

John Steinbeck

fiction

simple writing style

the struggle of poor working-class people

John Stienbeck

The Grapes of Wrath

story of the Joad family

their journey from Okalahoma to California

in search of a better life during

the Great Depression

journey of poor farmers from Oaklahoma to California

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