Unit 11
Modernist Portraits
Experimentations in Style, World War I to World War II
Authors and Works 444
Overview Questions 444
Learning Objectives 445
Overview 446
Video Overview 446
Discussion Questions for the Video 447
Timeline 448
Author/Text Review 449
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) 449
Questions 449
Web Archive 449
Susan Glaspell (1976-1948) 450
Questions 451
Web Archive 451
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) 452
Web Archive 452
Questions 453
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) 453
Web Archive 454
Questions 454
Marianne Moore (1887-1972) 454
Questions 455
Web Archive 455
Nella Larsen (1891-1964) 456
Questions 457
Web Archive 457
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) 457
Web Archive 458
Questions 459
John Dos Passos (1896-1970) 459
Questions 460
Web Archive 460
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) 461
Web Archive 461
Questions 462
Hart Crane (1899-1932) 462
Questions 463
Web Archive 463
Core Contexts 464
The War to End All Wars: The Impact of World War I 464
Web Archive 465
Question 466
Modernity and Technology: The Age of Machines 467
Questions 469
Web Archive 469
Cultural Change, Cultural Exchange: The Jazz Age, the Depression, and Transatlantic Modernism 470
Web Archive 471
Questions 472
Extended Contexts 473
“An Explosion in a Shingle Factory”: The Armory Show and the Advent of Modern Art 475
Questions 476
Web Archive 476
Experimentation and Modernity: Paris, 1900-1930 475
Questions 476
Web Archive 476
Assignments 476
Personal and Creative Responses 476
Problem-Based Learning Projects 477
Glossary 477
Selected Bibliography 479
Further Resources 480