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Activities: Overview Questions

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Instructor Overview
A brief description of the literary movement within its historical context.
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What issues shaped Americans' thinking during the modern era? How did American literature respond to the societal transformations of the post-World War I period?
How did political events, such as war and labor conflict, affect the works of the writers included in this unit?
What impact did World War I have on the way people thought about the modern world? What technological innovations influenced the way people perceived society and the individual's place within it?
How did the stylistic innovations of modernist prose affect the way later authors used language and narrative structure?
How were the myths of the "public enemy" shaped by historical and cultural changes during the modern era? How is this related to shifting notions of the American success story?
How did modernity transform the traditional notions of American self-reliance and independence? How did authors consider and rework modern social relations in their writing?
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