Modern Flashcards
(15 cards)
What date would this text be
1918-1939
Context that god doesn’t explain everything
Collapse of grand narratives
Doing things differently, what did that one person say
“Make it new” - Ezra pound
3 things that people might have been feeling
Fragmentation, instability, disillusionment
What type of text was quite modern
Stream of consciousness, fragmented
What happened to the British empire
Began to fade, loosing our colonial influence
Women?
Growth of women’s rights
Labour
Rise of labour/ trade unionism
Psychology
The subconscious, Freud and Jung
Physics
Discovery of relativity and quantum physics
What did we realise
That we dont know everything: knowledge is not absolute (with big science discoveries)
Technology
Mass production, radios, cars…
Response to which war
WW1, feeling horror, generational loss of men, Great Depression (1929)
Urban
Focus on the city and loneliness
What is the ‘silver screen’
Rise of cinema
