{"id":121,"date":"2021-06-08T17:51:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T17:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-empire-amliterature-1865-present\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=121"},"modified":"2021-07-12T17:02:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T17:02:36","slug":"american-literary-modernism","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-empire-amliterature-1865-present\/chapter\/american-literary-modernism\/","title":{"raw":"American Literary Modernism","rendered":"American Literary Modernism"},"content":{"raw":"The following video, although relatively lengthy, offers an insightful explanation of literary modernism's context of fragmentation and artistic experimentation with form.\r\n\r\n[embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tuKyomyBQ4Q[\/embed]\r\n\r\nThis video focuses on the cultural and historical context that fostered the growth of American literary modernism and then moves into modernist literature characteristics.\r\n\r\n[embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xbxRCFlgfYc&list=TLPQMDgwNjIwMjG7loCeVlsrVw&index=2[\/embed]\r\n\r\nThe following video discusses modernism and imagism, a subset of modernism shown in the poetry of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams.\u00a0 There's also discussion of some modernist poets.\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GYLHFChhItA\r\n<h2>Modernism in the Arts<\/h2>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/xroads.virginia.edu\/~ug03\/jukebox\/front.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manufacturing Memory: American Popular Music in the 1930's<\/a> provides overviews of the music of the depression, the connection between music and movies, the technological advances that impacted the recording industry, and the cultural blend of underground music.\r\n\r\nAs in literature, the visual arts saw new forms of expression emerging during this time period, as represented by the landscape painting shown below.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-178 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5663\/2021\/06\/09164602\/15-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"landscape\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" \/>\r\n\r\nAbstract Expressionism was also beginning to emerge during this time period. Learn more by reading the Metropolitan Museum of Art's essay on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/toah\/hd\/abex\/hd_abex.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abstract Expressionism<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-176 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5663\/2021\/06\/09163446\/14-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"abstract painting\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" \/>","rendered":"<p>The following video, although relatively lengthy, offers an insightful explanation of literary modernism&#8217;s context of fragmentation and artistic experimentation with form.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"oembed-1\" title=\"Modernism in American Literature\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tuKyomyBQ4Q?feature=oembed&#38;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This video focuses on the cultural and historical context that fostered the growth of American literary modernism and then moves into modernist literature characteristics.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"oembed-2\" title=\"Modernism\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xbxRCFlgfYc?feature=oembed&#38;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The following video discusses modernism and imagism, a subset of modernism shown in the poetry of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams.\u00a0 There&#8217;s also discussion of some modernist poets.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"oembed-3\" title=\"Modernism and Imagism\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GYLHFChhItA?feature=oembed&#38;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Modernism in the Arts<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xroads.virginia.edu\/~ug03\/jukebox\/front.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manufacturing Memory: American Popular Music in the 1930&#8217;s<\/a> provides overviews of the music of the depression, the connection between music and movies, the technological advances that impacted the recording industry, and the cultural blend of underground music.<\/p>\n<p>As in literature, the visual arts saw new forms of expression emerging during this time period, as represented by the landscape painting shown below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-178 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5663\/2021\/06\/09164602\/15-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"landscape\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Abstract Expressionism was also beginning to emerge during this time period. Learn more by reading the Metropolitan Museum of Art&#8217;s essay on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/toah\/hd\/abex\/hd_abex.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abstract Expressionism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-176 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5663\/2021\/06\/09163446\/14-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"abstract painting\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-121\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>American Literary Modernism. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Susan Oaks. <strong>Project<\/strong>: American Literature 1865-Present Resources. <strong>License<\/strong>: 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