Prescott Library: Interwar Years (Clark, Laffey, Michel, Thomas): Literature

Modernism & other postwar literary movements

The "Lost Generation":

Consider a key member (T.S. Eliot, Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Yeats, John Dos Passos.).
How did their experiences in the war or outisde their own countries shape their views and writing?
Focus on a particular writer.

Read a novel or short story or poem and analyze its historic significance.

How did it reflect and/or give shape to post-World War I ideas?

Read and investigate the significance of Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front.

Other authors of the time:

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